Summer Palace 2006 123movies

Watch: 颐和园 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games – betrayals, recriminations, provocations – as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Protests collapse, and Yu and Zhou lose each other amidst the social chaos and panicked crowds. Zhou Wei is sent to a summer military camp, and on his release moves to Berlin, fleeing both his country and memories of Yu. She finds a job, a lover, but can not forget Zhou. In Germany, social unrest is mounting: calls for freedom, demonstrations for democracy. A familiar story for Zhou. Weary, still haunted by Yu, he returns to China as the Berlin Wall crashes down. He finds her at last, in a small town. From evening to dawn, their future stretches before them, two changed souls in a changed world..
Plot: Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games – betrayals, recriminations, provocations – as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 3,765
	72% | RottenTomatoes
	79/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 60 Popularity: 5.221 | TMDB

Reviews:

an intelligent film about obsessive love
In the late 1980’s, an inexperienced young woman named Yu Hong leaves her hometown and boyfriend in the provinces to attend Beijing University. Almost immediately, she falls into a passionate love/hate relationship with a fellow student at the school. This torrid affair plays out partly against the backdrop of the student protests and subsequent massacre that occurred in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989. (The movie also takes place briefly in Germany, the other part of the world where significant social change was occurring in 1989).

“Summer Palace” plays almost like the autopsy of a romantic obsession, attempting to get at the root of why we love in the way that we do. A novice at true love, Yu Hong understands neither her undying passion for Zhou Wei nor her seemingly incessant need to keep sabotaging their relationship. The closest she can come to grasping this paradox is when she says to Zhou Wei: “I want to break up…because I can’t leave you.” Love is seen almost as a form of mental illness in this film – as a debilitating, all-consuming condition that one is powerless to control or “cure” but which, if left unchecked, can become the single dominant force in a person’s life (we rarely see Yu Hong studying, let alone going to class). One can attempt to fill the void with other loves, but the heart always comes back to the same place.

“Summer Palace” is long and occasionally repetitious and the political aspects aren’t as effectively integrated into the story as they perhaps might have been, but the movie is beautifully acted by Lei Hao and Xiaodong Guo, among others, and features incisive and sensitive direction by Ye Lou (who, along with Feng Mei and Ma Yingli, co-authored the screenplay). This is a largely impressionistic film, concentrating more on mood, imagery and emotions than on narrative. The last hour of the film – so filled with longing and regret as the characters age and attempt to come to terms with the special thing they have lost – is particularly lyrical and heartbreaking and will haunt you long after the movie is over.

All told, “Summer Palace” is an intelligent and moving rumination on that mysterious force we call love.

Chinese girl leaves her home to Beijing University… and gets lost. So does the film
A girl leaves her home in a provincial city to attend university. She was in a sex relation; it was a good excuse to escape that. She is a poet, and her poetry seemed interesting in English translation…When she arrives in Beijing, she meets lots of people… and soon falls into a sexual relationship. She seems to be the sort of person who cannot connect to others otherwise. She gets a real boyfriend… but their relationship seems about to break up when the big demonstrations of June the second start in Beijing. While neither of the lovers has any interest in politics, the girl is obviously unhappy… her boyfriend from her home town comes to “rescue” her just as the police move in.

If the film had ended there, it would have been excellent. The focus remained on the girl up to that point.

Unfortunately, the film started to follow other characters and went on for the rest of the film discussing them. These people and their relationships were uninteresting. The film which had begun well with a clear focus ended up scattered and pointless. When the movie was over, I didn’t even care about the woman who had been the focus at the beginning. I was just glad it was over with.

As the first half was excellent, I gave the film 5 of 10 stars.

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 2 hr 38 min (158 min) (Netherlands), 2 hr 20 min (140 min) (Cannes) (France)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Ye Lou
Writer Ye Lou, Yingli Ma, Feng Mei
Actors Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai
Country China, France
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital (as Dolby SRD)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A