Gong Li plays Pan Yuliang one of the first Chinese women ever to be acclaimed outside China. We follow her life as she grows up, becomes a prostitute and then decides that she wants more and begins to become an artist of some renowned. In an ironic twist she ended up living much of her life in exile (hence why she was known in the West) because the Chinese didn't care for her art or her life style.
This is a very beautiful but very dull film. Its best described as a fantastic looking by the numbers biography.This isn't a bad thing but there isn't enough life to keep you watching it from start to finish. Personally I was hitting the fast forward early on and graduated to stepping through chapters of the DVD. Its not bad as such but its not very interesting (released in connection to CUNY and its TV station)
This is a very beautiful but very dull film. Its best described as a fantastic looking by the numbers biography.This isn't a bad thing but there isn't enough life to keep you watching it from start to finish. Personally I was hitting the fast forward early on and graduated to stepping through chapters of the DVD. Its not bad as such but its not very interesting (released in connection to CUNY and its TV station)