SATURDAY FICTION 兰心大剧院 (LOU YE 2019)
An elegant, complex, but rather disappointing exercise in gray stylishness set in the 'French Concession' of Shanghai in the week before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. It's atmospheric spy story with theater, a posh hotel, and, most importantly, Gong Li. She is wonderful to watch but the movie is too slow and then suddenly too violent and all the way too murky. The Chinese title means "Lyceum Hotel," and that actually location is the setting for a play that slides strangely between reality and fiction.
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