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The Beauty Remains Review
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The Beauty Remains concerns the relationship between an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man and her half-sister in the aftermath of their father's death at a time when "the leveling influence of communism" was sweeping through the China.
Sounds like the material for lots of drama and excitement, but instead of pulling each other's hair and throwing antique Chinese vases at each other, the women mostly just stared at each other with vacant expressions and occasional tears while they plotted and schemed for money and the affection of the same man.
Maybe I missed something because I couldn't understand all the language, but my verdict is this movie should be catergorized along with In the Mood For Love as one of those movies that looks beautiful and has a great soundtrack (1949 Qingdao looks like Shanghai at the height of the Jazz age) but doesn't deliver an interesting story.
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