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Xueyun Bai | ... | |
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Lin Cui | ... | |
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Yihong Duan | ... |
Tang Caoshi
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Xiaodong Guo | ... | |
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Ling Hu | ... | |
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Chi Le | ... |
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Meihuizi Zeng | ... |
Dongdong
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Xianmin Zhang | ... | |
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Storyline
Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Protests collapse, and Yu and Zhou lose each other amidst the social chaos and panicked crowds. Zhou Wei is sent to a summer military camp, and on his release moves to Berlin, fleeing both his country and memories of Yu. She finds a job, a lover, but can not forget Zhou. In Germany, social unrest is mounting: calls for freedom, demonstrations for democracy. A familiar story for Zhou. Weary, still haunted by Yu, he returns to China as the Berlin Wall crashes down. He finds her at ... Written by Anon
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Release Date:
18 April 2007 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$2,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$10,649 (USA) (18 January 2008)Gross:
$62,707 (USA) (25 April 2008)Company Credits
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Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Dream Factory, Flying Moon Filmproduktion See more »
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Zhou Wei: Why?
Yu Hong: Because I can't leave you.
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Was the only Asian film selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in 2006. See more »Goofs
There were no nightclubs or bars in 1980's Beijing such as the ones portrayed in Summer Palace. Despite the presence of a few underground bars in Beijing at that time, it is highly improbably that any university students would patron such establishments. Moreover, those bars did not play American pop music, did not allow dancing, did not stock western liquor, and certainly did not admit foreigners. Any clubs or bars like the ones shown in Summer Palace did not begin appearing in Beijing until the late 1990s and did not gain popularity amongst middle-class college students until after the new millennium. See more »Quotes
Yu Hong: I want us to break up.Zhou Wei: Why?
Yu Hong: Because I can't leave you.
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Having watched the movie myself and reading some of the comments/reviews with regards to the movie prompted me to post something in fairness to the movie.
I feel that the movie was meant to let audience have a feeling that the leads in the movies are lost. If we were to think of the backdrop of the movie, set in the late 80's, Tiananmen incident, the chant for democracy, all this would have let you understand that the China then was not a China that many could understand.
The China up till the 80s was probably such a controlled and suppressed place to live in, and when these suppressed feelings and emotions were suddenly set free, it was like an explosion. The literature and external factors began influencing the way the people viewed and did things. This could explain the "mindless" love making scenes as the desires to love and to have sex were probably something that was not openly displayed or demonstrated. Freedom is what everyone wants, but the maturity to handle the consequence of the actions brought about by freedom might not be something that everyone can handle.
The movie also explores on people who dare not love. All because they fear losing it. I personally felt the characterization was done quite well, and was aptly shown by the character Yu Hong. Love is not something that can be explained logically or defined in any one way. The insight to the characters views and actions in this movie shows that clearly.
Summer Palace is a movie worth watching, but it might not be a movie that is for everyone. Keep an open mind and try and understand the time and country this movie is set in, you'd probably appreciate the movie much better that way.