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Curse of the Golden Flower
Following the attempts of a young ambitious emperor, who has married a woman from the next county, in order to put his control over the whole empire, but when he achieves his goal, incidents come to climax, as he makes his mind to get rid of his wife, and his son finds out the truth, the thing that brings terrible for them.
5 March 1971, Alliance, Ohio, USA
4 June 1988, Anshan, Liaoning, China
28 May 1976, Belleville, New Jersey, USA
23 March 1978, Jilin, China
18 May 1955, Lamma Island, Hong Kong
18 January 1979, Taipei, Taiwan
31 December 1965, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
August 28, 2009
Zhang's beauty is one of furious defiance
August 02, 2007
Spectacular production designs and giant CGI battles can't really disguise a soap opera plot and often hammy acting.
September 17, 2007
Mucho brillo y color y poca sustancia dramática en esta tragedia épica que emula tanto a Shakespeare como a Kurosawa. Vale la pena sólo por su aspecto visual y, sobre todo, por la siempre intensa Gong Li.
November 16, 2012
Lavish, grim, magnificent; a robust successor to Zhang's recent martial arts epics, characterised by similarly baroque spectacle and tragedy.
January 16, 2008
Um épico que não apenas se encaixa no clima mítico e fantástico do gênero wuxia pian como ainda traz toques claramente shakespeareanos em sua trama repleta de traições e lutas sangrentas por um trono real (ou, neste caso, imperial).
January 12, 2007
Curse is straightforward and solemn, lacking not for spectacle but for humor and a humanizing touch.
January 21, 2012
Zhang Yimou serves up a sumptuous sensory feast with spectacular set pieces and--crucially--the story, characters, and connection to back it up.
January 17, 2007
To put a point to it, the lavish period costumes, operatic mise-en-scène and ceremonial grandeur of Curse of the Golden Flower clashes fatally with the nuanced nastiness of modern marital discord.
January 12, 2007
Make no mistake, all is epic, violent, bloody madness once the director hits his stride, and fans of Zhang's work will not want to miss Curse of the Golden Flower. But brush strokes are amiss here.
January 12, 2007
The melodrama here is of a sort seldom taken seriously outside Shakespeare's tragedies, and the final body count rivals Hamlet in its royal bloodletting.
January 12, 2007
This spectacularly decorated movie offers the enjoyment of watching Zhang chronicle the lives of one very nutty family. It also allows Zhang to load every inch of the screen with images so full that you half expect them to collapse under their own weight.
January 12, 2007
For all the swordplay and martial-arts fisticuffs, Curse is its most delirious as a lavish argument for the soap opera's roots in Greek tragedy.

