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Zhou Yu's Train(周渔的火车)

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China, Hong Kong · 2002
Rated PG-13 · 1h 37m
Director Sun Zhou
Starring Sun Honglei, Gong Li, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Zhang Heng
Genre Drama, Romance

Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.

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Village Voice by

Devolves from opaque mystery into boring melodramatics and incoherent contrivances.

40

The New York Times by Dave Kehr

Comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies -- or, at worst, a commercial Frankenstein's monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market.

60

Variety by Derek Elley

Chinese thesp Gong Li goes for a striking career makeover in Zhou Yu's Train, a sensual, slickly packaged slice of Euro-style metaphysical cinema centered on a free-thinking woman and the two men in her life.

70

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

If Zhou Yu’s Train is finally no more than whimsy, it’s classy, delicate whimsy, a testament to the way romantic love, however unsatisfied, continues to drive itself.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Seems at once overwhelmingly romantic and elliptical, yet all the while it has been building to a conclusion that is surprisingly affecting in the jolt of recognition it elicits.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Breathtakingly filmed (lots of slow-motion) by Wang Yu, but then it would be difficult to go wrong when your star is one of the world's most beautiful women.

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