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Dec 11, 2011 · Scene by scene, “The Flowers of War” is an erratic and ungainly piece of storytelling, full of melodramatic twists and grotesque visual excesses (a bullet pierces first a stained-glass window ...
Dec 20, 2011 · The Flowers of War. Directed by Yimou Zhang. Drama, History, Romance, War. R. 2h 26m. By Mike Hale. Dec. 20, 2011. Eventually, it seems, every senseless waste of life gets its own gauzy tear ...
From internationally celebrated director Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House Of Flying Daggers) comes a story of love and war. The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites –a flock of shell-shocked school children, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American (Academy Award® winner Christian Bale, The Fighter, The Dark Knight) posing as a ...
Dec 21, 2011 · The Flowers of War - Metacritic. 2011. R. Row 1 Entertainment. 2 h 26 m. Summary An unprincipled American is caught in the turmoil of China during the 1937 invasion by Japan. Seeking refuge in a Catholic Church, he meets up with a courtesan desperate to protect a group of schoolgirls from the vicious onslaught.
Feb 14, 2012 · The Flowers of War – review. H eralded as a new dawn in China-Hollywood co-operation, this ambitious war film from Zhang Yimou is an attempt to turn the revolting aftermath of the 1937 Japanese ...
More world premieres from Antonio Chavarrías, Edwin, Werner Herzog and Kevin Macdonald. David Hudson 19 Dec 2011 5. Set in 1937 in Nanjing, China during the Nanking Massacre, at the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a Church compound, risk their lives as they struggle to survive the plight and ...
Aug 5, 2012 · Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War is a controversial and ambitious war film that depicts the brutal Japanese invasion of Nanjing in 1937 and the fate of a group of Chinese and Western women who ...
