12-05-2011, 11:31 AM
Patch up a broken marriage in old China during a plague? Yikes. Good thing all those Brits were there because clearly the Chinese were too stupid and superstitious to manage.
This is a beautiful romance, Norton & Watts have good chemistry for a couple split by an affair and the scenery is gorgeous, but I couldn't get past the lack of Chinese characters in China. Anthony Wong is the only one with significant lines and he delivers a wonderfully constrained performance. And Diana Rigg has a great scene as an old nun discussing her marriage to God, but she is so old now that I failed to recognize her. It should have been much dirtier (not Rigg's nun but the setting). China was crazy dirty in the '90s. It must have been horrifically dirty during a plague.
No sword fights.
This is a beautiful romance, Norton & Watts have good chemistry for a couple split by an affair and the scenery is gorgeous, but I couldn't get past the lack of Chinese characters in China. Anthony Wong is the only one with significant lines and he delivers a wonderfully constrained performance. And Diana Rigg has a great scene as an old nun discussing her marriage to God, but she is so old now that I failed to recognize her. It should have been much dirtier (not Rigg's nun but the setting). China was crazy dirty in the '90s. It must have been horrifically dirty during a plague.
No sword fights.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
