Magnificent splendor

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2016)

One of my friends saw this at a university film club and at the end everyone gave the movie a standing ovation. It's one of those films, and makes you appreciate the quality of film making amidst the flotsam and jetsam and supposedly constitutes films today (looking at you Fast and the Furious).
I was captivated by this, and loved the director's commentary, which is worth the price admission alone. With today's anti-Chinese hysteria in the 2016 US presidential election, you wonder how Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would play out in the multiplexes, but this movie will endure longer than any presidency gone wrong.