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- 2002
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 59 m
- 2002
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 59 m
Summary Charts the stormy love triangle in a small Chinese town when a legendary opera singer comes to perform. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin
Written By: Hui-Ling Wang, Ming-Hsia Wang
- 2002
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 59 m
- 2002
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 59 m
Fleeing by Night
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Summary Charts the stormy love triangle in a small Chinese town when a legendary opera singer comes to perform. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin
Written By: Hui-Ling Wang, Ming-Hsia Wang
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
45% Mixed
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18% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
51
36% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
An exquisite love story directed with admirable subtlety and sensitivity.
If this all sounds masochistic, it most certainly is. But the filmmakers have rendered it with such grace and subtlety that the spectacle of three very intelligent people ruining each other's lives becomes irresistibly romantic.
The many opera scenes are so beautifully mounted, they make up for the moments when the story veers toward melodrama.
That decade-spanning finale allows the three leads to age onscreen and demonstrate their impressive range, particularly Liu.
The story is hardly original, but this well-directed Taiwanese drama paints an intermittently vivid portrait of life on the Chinese mainland in the 1930s era.
An overwrought Taiwanese soaper.
This dreadfully earnest inversion of the "Concubine" love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension.
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Awards
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Asia-Pacific Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
