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The Last Emperor
Embodying the true story of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who throughout his life experiences an incident that turns upside down his entire life, as he has been taken as a hostage, during the revolution, where he has tortured and began to recall the amazing and the joyful moments he has during his childhood at the Forbidden City.
June1944, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
2 December 1963, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
27 September 1950, Tokyo, Japan
17 January 1952, Tokyo, Japan
18 October 1981
5 February 1966, Shanghai, China
24 October 1929, Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan
1920, Shanghai, China
1929, Beijing, China
1959, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
1951, Tokyo, Japan
19 January 1927, Beijing, China
6 April 1957, West Ham, London, England, UK
27 June 1974, New York City, New York, USA
January 07, 2014
One of the most visually arresting pictures of recent years.
January 07, 2014
At last a real, thought-provoking, eyeball-popping movie epic.
January 07, 2014
Even though its ambitions sometimes get the better of it, the film succeeds often enough to make us grateful that, even in our MTV age, a director like Bertolucci is still willing to get on the mat and grapple with Personality and History.
August 23, 2016
It is the grandeur of the boy king and his unreal opulent world that is best remembered, splendid and isolated, and at last, because of its loneliness, sad.
January 07, 2014
The story is colorful and sometimes unpredictable, so it's rarely boring. But it's rarely much deeper than the emperor's favorite rice bowl.
January 07, 2014
There's probably a truly great movie in the story of Pu Yi, but The Last Emperor is not that movie. Still, what director Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) has accomplished here is both ambitious and impressive.
February 21, 2015
One of the most provocative and stunningly beautiful films of the past 20 years.
February 17, 2015
As pure spectacle, "The Last Emperor" is a spellbinding peek behind the gate of a lost world.
February 22, 2013
As coolly lavish an epic as we may ever see.
September 07, 2011
The expanse of time is saturated with an expanse of visual beauty that feels absolutely right for the story.
January 07, 2014
If there is such a thing as voluptuous detachment, Bertolucci and John Lone have found it. Lone's achievement in his absorbing account of Pu Yi is to place him at a distance and yet make his plight totally involving.
January 07, 2014
It is a hesitant, conservative approach that yields great elegance and a rhythm that carries the viewer along. Yet the film is haunted by a sense of opportunities not taken, of an artist deliberately reining in his artistry.
