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Pavilion of Women (2001)

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With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.

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Madame Wu Ailian
Sau Sek ...
Mr. Wu
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Fengmo Wu
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Chiuming
Chieng Mun Koh ...
Ying
Anita Loo ...
Old Lady Wu
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Madame Kang
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Sister Shirley
Jia Dong Liu ...
Mr. Lang
Shu Chen ...
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Hang-Sang Poon ...
Fat Cook
Li Wang ...
Kang Lin Yi
You Jin Xu ...
Matchmaker
Ding Yuan Gu ...
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In 1938, Ailian is the forty years old wife of a wealthy man, Mr. Wu, who belongs to the traditional Wu Family in China. In order to get rid off her sexual obligations with her husband, Ailian gives Chiuming, a very young concubine to him. Andre is an American priest and doctor who takes care of an orphanage and becomes the tutor of her eighteen years old son Fengmo Wu. Father Andre starts giving classes to Fengmo, Ailian and Chiuming. Then, two forbidden loves will rise: between the priest and the first wife, and between the son and the concubine, having the invasion of China by the Japanese in a big picture. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Rated R for sexuality and war images | See all certifications »
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16 November 2001 (Spain)  »

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Amor, Honra e Guerra  »

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$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$16,368 (USA) (4 May 2001)

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$35,938 (USA) (18 May 2001)
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- a fine example of cross-cultural co-production
14 September 2002 | by (Canberra, Australia) – See all my reviews

Anyone who liked Zhang Yimou's "Raise The Red Lantern" is a prospect for "Pavilion Of Women". Whereas "Raise The Red Lantern" explores the breaking of merely Chinese cultural taboos, "Pavilion Of Women" centres on a romance between leading characters who flout both Chinese and Western mores. This is a cross-cultural romantic story by the prolific American writer on China, Pearl S. Buck, set in the late 1930s. It has first class cross-cultural direction and acting, and was filmed on location in elegant settings of old Suzhou. It is a fine example of what the Chinese film industry can achieve in co-production.


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