This is high art on the topic of one girl's attempt to find the perfect lover/calligrapher in one and same person.

Luck is bestowed upon Ewan McGregor to square off with Vivian Wu, but we better leave that subject for some other time.

A point to note would be that it may be a bit hard, ocasionally, for the novice to keep track of the "picture-in-picture" scnenes where you have two or three screens to keep track of, but in the name of art and beauty, this movie comes out on top.