Bertolucci's best

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2008)

To give one an impression of how amazing this film is, I could barely hear the dialogue but the music and visuals were clear. The imagery in the Forbidden City will floor you. If gravity ever stops working for some reason, we will just have to display the scene where Puyi is three and runs out to the courtyard of his thousands of subjects bowing. Its enough to keep anyone mounted to the ground.
And Talking Head David Byrne did the music! It can't stress how wonderful a film this is. I am truly surprised it isn't on IMDb Top 250. It was actually a film of its year that deserved the cluster of Oscars (9 in '87).
beautiful and devastating like a Shakespearian tragedy