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  • 2007
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2007
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 27 m
Beauty Remains

Summary It is 1948; China is on the precipice of a new era, and the decadence of the past has but a breath of history left. On the lush island of a Chinese port city, enormous houses dominate the mountainside. Beauty Remains is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father and their shared love for a cha...

Directed By: Ann Hu

Written By: Michael Eldridge, Beth Schacter, Bin Wang

  • 2007
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2007
  • Emerging Pictures
  • 1 h 27 m

Beauty Remains

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary It is 1948; China is on the precipice of a new era, and the decadence of the past has but a breath of history left. On the lush island of a Chinese port city, enormous houses dominate the mountainside. Beauty Remains is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father and their shared love for a cha...

Directed By: Ann Hu

Written By: Michael Eldridge, Beth Schacter, Bin Wang

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
29% Positive
2 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
29% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
29% Positive
2 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
29% Negative
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75
Chinese director Ann Hu follows-up her tepid 2000 debut "Shadow Magic" with another luscious historical drama that, thankfully, is a lot more interesting. The plot is no less melodramatic, but here melodramatics work along with the film's theme, not against it.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
Hu, a Chinese-American immigrant who made a mid-career switch from business to filmmaking, approaches these characters with genuine passion and compassion, and her evident talent shines through the timeworn material. Acting by all three principals is tremendous.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
60
The story seems to be occurring in a China of the imagination, an airless place at once sensually ripe and icily formal. Like “Far From Heaven,” it denies its characters and viewers the ecstatic release they crave.
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50
If aesthetics are a prime factor in your movie choices, you may get something out of Ann Hu's overwrought, but beautifully atmospheric, period romance.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
An unappealing, stiff melodrama.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
38
So beautifully filmed (as if through a gauze curtain), it is especially sad that the script doesn't measure up.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
30
The film plays like the work of a fifth-generation Chinese hack faking a lavish Hollywood saga on an indie budget: It's all soft focuses, sax flourishes, and silky slo-mos.
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Production Company China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Chinachem Group, Emerging Pictures, Media Asia Films, Shanghai Film Group
Release Date Sep 19, 2007
Duration 1 h 27 m
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Website http://www.emergingpictures.com/beauty_remains.htm
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Awards

Los Angeles Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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