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What Family Doesn't Have Its Ups and Its Downs?
So that's a quote from The Lion in Winter (pronounced by Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine), but I was reminded of it when I saw the latest picture from Zhang Yimou, The Curse of the Golden Flower-- a story of yet another royal family gnawing itself to pieces over a holiday.
It's gorgeous and has astonishing performances by my long-time crush Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li but I mention it here because of it's astonishing treatment of family. set almost exclusively within the perfect walls of the Forbidden City, all the royal family can do is develop incestuous connections, plot, poison and embroider, all the while each person feels wretched for the ways he or she has been wronged by everyone else.
See it, see it and be pleasantly surprised by the splendour and by the absurd single-mindedness of family members when they're in the thick of adoring and despising each other.
posted by Elise at 9:09 AM
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