Raise the Red Lantern
1991
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Dec 23, 1994 · To Live. "To Live" is a simple title, but it conceals a universe. The film follows the life of one family in China, from the heady days of gambling dens in the 1940s to the austere hardship of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. And through all of their fierce struggles with fate, all of the political twists and turns they endure, their hope ...
Dec 14, 1994 · Zhang Yimou's masterful, stirring "To Live" takes us from the turbulent, treacherous China of the '40s civil war to the brutal Cultural Revolution and beyond through the lives of one couple, who ...
Nov 18, 1994 · "To Live" was shown as part of this year's New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from Caryn James's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Sept. 30.
Rated. Unrated. Runtime. 133 min. Release Date. 05/17/1994. Arguably the most renowned filmmaker of Chinese cinema’s Fifth Generation, Zhang Yimou reached the peak of his cinematic powers in the 1990s with a stable of arthouse dramas, each celebrated by the international film community and nominated for major awards.
Splendidly photographed and composed, consumately acted and faithfully scored, "To Live" is a three or four hour film novel lovingly packed into two hours and fifteen minutes. For a long time, Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" stood by itself as the greatest family epic in my moviegoing experience.
Dec 16, 1994 · To Live: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With You Ge, Gong Li, Ben Niu, Wu Jiang. After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Mandarin. Box office. $2.3 million (US/Canada) [1] To Live, also titled Lifetimes in some English versions, [2] is a 1994 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Lu Wei, based on the novel of the same name by Yu Hua. It was produced by the Shanghai Film Studio and ERA International, starring Ge You and Gong Li, in her seventh ...
