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By Danifesto G (111) on 07 Jan 2007

This is my Best Best Best movie that I like, very touching and din imagine that I will like this kind of movie, about the gayness~ um, otherwise…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 26 Sep 2006

A gay love story based on an anonymous Internet novel…

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By Mio A (36) on 12 Aug 2006

I dont feel good. thought the editor did much more than he should do..its not about imagination, its about the story of the film…

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By Jade F (40) on 11 Jun 2006

A great movie. But the novel is better than the movie…

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By Junie A (1) on 26 Apr 2006

Touching story about a forbidden love. Have read the original online story before…

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By Reachable R (19) on 19 Mar 2006

Adapted from the internet novel Beijing Story, this is the story of a young gay student and his relationship with an older man set against…

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By Rich B (246) on 03 Jun 2005

Lan Yu (2002) Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 07 Mar 2003

The characters seem one-dimensional, and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 07 Mar 2003

Seems like something American and European gay movies were doing 20 years ago…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 02 Nov 2002

A nicely constructed film with an unusual, though not unheard-of theme for Chinese cinema…

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By Patrick Z. Mcgavin (37) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Oct 2002

Wong Kar-wai made a much more dynamic film, Happy Together, five years ago. Lan Yu suffers by comparison…

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By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 03 Oct 2002

It's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits. If only it had the story to match…

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By Kim Morgan (275) for Oregonian (1,550) on 19 Sep 2002

This is a beautiful, moving picture about a love affair between two very different Chinese men…

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By Andy Klein (675) for New Times (467) on 21 Aug 2002

Filled with sharp observations and interesting, often subtle, bits of visual trickery, much of it evoking the technique of Douglas Sirk's American…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 15 Aug 2002

For the simplicity and strength of its emotional core, Lan Yu is an exquisite film…

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By Pam Grady (384) for Reel.com (1,232) on 25 Jul 2002

Though Lan Yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency, the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 Jul 2002

Deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 23 Jun 2002

Lan Yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama, but it doesn't even try for the greatness that Happy Together shoots for (and misses)…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Jun 2002

Stanley Kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made, but one of the best love stories of any stripe…

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By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 21 May 2002

The political dimensions of the story and the circumstances of the movie's own creation make for a powerful context…

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