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Festival coverage

Cinema China

2007

This touring festival of rare Chinese film gets underway in Edinburgh on March 9, before touring around the UK. Featuring films dating back to the 1930s, many of these films are not available on DVD, so the festival represents a rare opportunity to see them. Highlights include an ultra-rare print of Yellow Earth and a special screening of Goddess with a newly commissioned live score.

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  • Curse Of The Golden Flower
    Review preview for Curse Of The Golden Flower

    Shakespearian, dynastic tragedy on an operatic scale

    Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5
    Love and politics lead the way to destruction in the Chinese imperial court.
  • Centre Stage
    Review preview for Centre Stage

    Kwan aptly probes the boundaries between reality and fiction that were so paper thin during Ruan’s own life.

    Dean Bowman · 4.5 out of 5
    Portrait of the tragic life of the Chinese Greta Garbo, Ruan Lingyu.
  • Goddess
    Review preview for Goddess

    The film's use of location as narrative drive is endearing, binding the strong heroine to her surroundings.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    A prostitute in 1930s Shanghai tries to build a future for her son.
  • Ju Dou
    Review preview for Ju Dou

    As well as having an eye for the dramatic – such as yards of cloth tumbling from a height or flames licking up a wall – Yimou also has a way of conveying the emotion of a scene with incredible brevity.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    The wife of a brutal dye house owner embarks on an illicit affair with her husband's nephew.
  • Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles
    Review preview for Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles

    This may be one man’s story but the themes are epic.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A man embarks on a quest of the head and the heart in an attempt to reconnect with his son.
  • Hero
    Review preview for Hero

    Every cinematic trick in the book to make Hero's violence as sexy as a car commercial

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Visually ravishing fable of maverick warriors in ancient China.
  • In The Mood For Love
    Review preview for In The Mood For Love

    The film is so subtle and slow and internalised that it crystalises into a thing of beauty.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The history of a love affair that never was.

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