To Live
by Yimou Zhang
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Actor: Ben Niu, Deng Fei, Li Gong, Xiao Cong, You GeDirector: Yimou Zhang
Brand: GONGLI,GEYOU
Cinematographer: Yue L?
Editor: Yuan Du
Producer: Christophe Tseng
Producer: Fu-Sheng Chiu
Producer: Funhong Kow
Writer: Hua Yu
Writer: Wei Lu
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Chinese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of To Live
Movie Review: Spellbinding...a Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
If To Live's title, as Roger Ebertt says, "conceals a universe," then watching this engrossing, exhilirating and extravagant film surely reveals one. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival, this epic film from China's most renowned director, Zhand Yimou (Oscar nominee for Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), unveils a world worthy of "a Chinese Gone With the Wind" (The New York Observer)! Set against four decades of Chinese political turmoil, To Live follows the lives of one couple, Fugui and Jiazhen (Ge You and Gong Li), as they struggle to survive their own changing station within the upheaval. As the years go by, bringing bizarre twists, tragic losses...and profound hope, Fugui and his family persevere, striving to reach a calm within the storm so they can do the one thingthe one thing they've always wanted: To Live.
Summary of To Live
The story of Fugui and Jiazhen, and their family's struggle for survival from the 1940's through the 1980's.Genre: Foreign Film - Chinese
Rating: UN
Release Date: 24-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD
One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the struggles of an impoverished husband and wife (Ge You, Gong Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the hardships that accompanied the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They raise two children amidst a Communist regime, surviving numerous setbacks and yet managing, somehow, to live. Both intimate and epic, Zhang's film encompasses the simplest and most profound realities of Chinese life during this controversial period, and for their honesty, Zhang and Gong Li faced a two-year ban on future collaborations. To Live is a testament to their art, transcending politics to celebrate the tenacity of ordinary people in the wake of turbulent history. --Jeff Shannon
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