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Pavilion of Women [DVD] [2001] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Willem Dafoe
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Willem Dafoe, Yan Luo, Shek Sau, John Cho, Yi Ding (II)
  • Directors: Ho Yim
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Jan 2002
  • Run Time: 116 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005RHG5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 105,168 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars East Side Story, 25 Jun 2002
By J Gerrard (Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pavilion Of Women [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
Set in China in 1938, the film depicts a society where women are treated as a commodity and saving face is more important than saving life. Madame Wu, the long-suffering wife (some might say property) of a demanding and ungrateful aristocrat, struggles for her freedom and falls in love with an American missionary along the way. And that's not even the half of it. There's a fire, a war, the arrival of electricity...

The problem here is plot overload: there is too much for the film to deal with. Important events are skimmed over in a series of disjointed scenes and the characters remain distant and difficult to care about. The situation isn't helped by the fact that English clearly isn't the first language of many of the actors. Instead we have to put up with some truly atrocious performances, and a script that tries so hard to be worthy that it ends up being lifeless, manipulative and ridden with clichés.

The film occasionally succeeds with a few comic moments and some visual flourishes, such as the impressive aerial attack, but ultimately it is too clumsy to be truly involving. And who cast Willem Dafoe as the love interest? As the owner of the most strangely shaped mouth in Hollywood, he makes a good Green Goblin, but as a romantic hero he simply doesn't cut it. 'Pavilion of Women' might tell the tale of forbidden passion but the only passion you'll be left with after watching it is annoyance.

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It could have been ..., 5 May 2008
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pavilion Of Women [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
A fascinating film about China in 1938, just before the arrival of the invading Japanese. The film shows the real culture of China in a bourgeois family, how they are divided between respecting the traditions that set women apart, that provide married men with concubines, that marries sons and daughters at birth, but the film also shows how the refusal of these alienating traditions leads the sons and daughters of these families into the arms of the Communists, especially with the Japanese arriving. The film also shows how the Americans are trying to meddle with China via the good old Catholic religion that has nothing to do in China but that provides the poorest, in that case orphans, with a little hope and survival. But then the film turnes sentimentalese. To make the elder son fall in love with the young concubine of his own father is far-fetched, and to add the mother falling in love with the American priest is even more far-fetched. And that makes the film mushy about good and evil and it forgets a country can only change from inside. It tries to impose onto China a change that comes from outside, from a foreigner who breaks the traditions instead of at the most helping them change all by themselves. It also shows that China in 1938 needed a big break, a big change and that this was going to come from the Communists prompted into taking the control of China by the absurd invasion from Japan. Some beautiful scenes, particularly the fast visions of the play telling the doomed love affair of two young people. Beautiful theater, beautiful drama.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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