The turbulent give and take of man-woman relationships is as intense at times as anything in D. Lawrence, but with a sexual explicitness Lawrence achieved only in Lady Chatterley. As played by the striking and talented Hao Lei, Yu Hong is a hell of a young woman, beautiful, alive, articulate, philosophical--her diary provides voice-over for many of the film's scenes--willful, and never satisfied with Zhou Wei, but never able till the end fourteen years later to let him go either.
She doesn't want him, she says, but when she is with him she is happy. Any critique of the movie has to recognize that this is what it's about. It's quite true that once again rain is used excessively, but like many a filmmaker before him Lou Ye recognizes that rain, cigarettes, alcohol and intense sex by good looking people are enough to make a movie atmospheric and sexy and compulsively watchable.
Jaunty Chinese pop songs and bursts of passionate classical strings are used with a broad hand, but they always work in context. Summer Palace is too long, and its wild abandon catches up with it in the diffuse, occasionally irrelevant sequences of the second half. When the political repression comes and Wei goes to Berlin along with Hong's best girlfriend Li Ti Hu Lingling and her boyfriend Ryi Gu Zhang Ziannin , and there are details of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Perestroika that have far less urgency, the whole mood dissipates and the focus meanders.
Hong, who's already caught Li Ti with the love of her life Zhou Wei, drifts or rather plunges greedily from one man to another. There's an abortion, a bike accident, adultery, a suicide, and other events, including a bittersweet reunion, but these are just blips in the long meditation on love-longing and life.
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