Farewell My Concubine 1993 123movies

Watch: 霸王别姬 1993 123movies, Full Movie Online – “Farewell, My Concubine” is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame..
Plot: Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled “Farewell My Concubine” that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo’s explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
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Ratings:

	8.1/10 Votes: 29,351
	87% | RottenTomatoes
	83/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 421 Popularity: 17.231 | TMDB

Reviews:

Opening and closing scenes
quote by tedg: “Opening scenes are seductions, promises. They transport one to the world of the story and establish who you as viewer can expect to be. Done right, they are an art to themselves. This film’s opening is among the best I’ve seen, establishing the world of performance: politics as theater and love as both. It lets you know the perspective is centered on a stylized stage and concerns loss, sexually ambiguous brotherhood and betrayal. All in a couple minutes.”

Well put. Also noteworthy is that at the end of the movie the opening scene is being mirrored (the two actors on stage being lit by a spot light), the film thus coming full circle. Quite ingenious.

What is good about the movie is that we (Westerners that is) learn a lot about recent Chinese history, which cannot be a bad thing considering the direction in which China is heading.

Oh, and Leslie Cheung’s – may he rest in peace – performance is simply outstanding. But then, the acting is first rate all round.

This is one hell of a movie.

And, off topic, I have once again realised that the problem with sub-titled films is that one misses so much/too much of the actual acting, making it really necessary to view movies twice. Still, (a lot) better than viewing dubbed films though.

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 2 hr 51 min (171 min), 2 hr 35 min (155 min) (theatrical) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 5750000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Music, Romance
Director Kaige Chen
Writer Pik-Wah Lee, Wei Lu
Actors Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li
Country China, Hong Kong
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 25 wins & 12 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 535
Laboratory Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Film Length 4,308 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm