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Together
United Artists
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for mild language and thematic elements
Starring
Tang Yun,
Liu Peiqi,
Chen Hong,
Wang Zhiwen,
and
Chen Kaige
A coming-of-age tale woven together with the harmony and intensity of a complex musical orchestration. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Musical
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Xue Xiao Lu
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Chen Kaige
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 18, 2003
Video: November 18, 2003
Theatrical: May 30, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
116 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
China / South Korea |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Mandarin (with English subtitles) |
Original title “Han Ni Zai Yiki”; Winner, Silver Seashell, Best Director and Best Actor (Liu), 2002 San Sebastián International Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Together is a likely candidate to become that one foreign-language film that jumps out of the art houses each year to become a mainstream phenomenon.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's hard to watch and listen to Together without, in some sense, having your heart lifted by its music.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A movie with the nerve to end with melodramatic sentiment--and get away with it, because it means it. Expect lots of damp eyes in the audience.

80
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Viewers with a low tolerance for sentiment may balk, but the emotions are so true and the characters so appealing that the film should completely win you over.

80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A true original, thanks to some memorable characters, an engaging story and a thrilling classical soundtrack.

80
Time
Richard Corliss
Isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love?

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
To contextualize the story's lack of subtlety, it helps to see these casting choices as ongoing penance for the time when, as a boy, Chen denounced his own father to the Red Guard.

75
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Though moving, Together needed more opera to send us where great music frequently goes -- nearly over the edge.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Together's mix of classical gems and composer Zhao Lin's plaintive score is stirring, soaring stuff.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Pays off in surprising ways, when love of music, and fame, plays second fiddle to love of family.
70
Chicago Reader
Ted Shen
Chen tries to generate some suspense, but there's never any doubt which side has to win.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Together may not be overtly political, but its vision of contemporary Beijing, where brazen, fashion-crazed gold diggers like Lili bait their hooks to snare arrogant, slippery wheeler-dealers who end up playing her for a sucker, has bite.

63
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
It may be a crowd-pleasing escapism, but it's that feel-good shmaltz that ultimately plays the film off-key.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The film doesn't amount to an emotionally palpable experience. Most of the stops it attempts to pull out are rusty. The movie ends with a gigantic lump in its throat, one that would take a tall glass of Barbara Stanwyck to wash down.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Ray Conlogue
If you're in the mood for tears and triumph, with a dash of exoticism, Together may well be the film for you.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A high tolerance for syrupy melodrama is required in order to enjoy Together.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The result is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser that will strike Chen's admirers as a heartfelt but decidedly minor effort.

50
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Mawkishly clichéd as it is, Together is an odder hybrid than it first appears -- at once populist and deeply cynical about the price of popularity.

50
Variety
Derek Elley
The plucky music student who overcomes adversity is a staple subgenre of mainland cinema and, though Chen Kaige directs with greater slickness and more finesse and humor, there's still little to differentiate Together from any other state-studio pic.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The performances are all terrific, but Together never jells as a compelling narrative.

50
LA Weekly
John Powers
Its schmaltzy manipulations are pure 1940s Hollywood. Still, if you can get past the corn, the story exerts a not-unsatisfying emotional pull thanks to Yun's soulful gravity and a tenderness that Chen hasn't shown quite so openly since his 1984 debut, "Yellow Earth."

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Miles away from "Farewell, My Concubine" in form and function, with thinly defined characters and unreflective attitudes about urban values vs. country values, the film would be impossible to identify as Chen's if his name weren't in the opening credits.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Torpid, syrupy melodrama from the Chinese director of 1993's "Farewell My Concubine."

30
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Since this is a coming-of-age movie about a poor rural kid who grapples with the big city, it would be nice if its protagonist werent such a lummox.


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