 A beautiful, gorgeous example of what you can achieve when you fuse an Asian theme with European movie making.
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. |