Movie Rating
5.0
Against a volatile backdrop of simmering political unrest, two young lovers play out their complex, erotic, love/hate relationship. Beautiful Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing, where she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and and falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Their relationship becomes one of dangerous games, as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Lou Ye (Suzhou River; Purple Butterfly) reveals a portrait of a place and a generation - China and liberated Chinese youth - as never seen before in the West. Lyrical and brutal, elusive and explicit, elegiac and erotic, Summer Palace depicts a passionate love story and the struggle for personal liberty jeopardized by history and fate.
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