Devastating women in vintage bodices. Dashing young men in Napoleonic garb. The mellifulous music of the Italian language. A story that crosses several generations of a Tuscan family. No one surpasses Terrence Malick at sculpting light and shadow into palpable onscreen presence.
Several shots are so gorgeous they are almost unfair.
Raise the Red Lantern Gong Li and Zhang Yimou virtually invented each other, and here they craft such a beautiful sequence of moody period postcard pictures, it's hard to figure out where the landscape ends and Li begins. More eye candy than most brains are able to handle in one sitting. All rights reserved.