Review of The Last Emperor (1987) by Laetitia K — 16 Aug 2008
Mesmerizing, Oscar-winning, fate-filled journey to a vanished time and place. Bertolucci's gorgeous and seductive The Last Emperor imbues this powerless and constantly thwarted figure with a resolute if melancholy grace.
It's a tribute to the film's intelligence and its feeling for dialectics that it views both the Forbidden City and the detention center as prisons, and that when Pu Yi winds up as a gardener there's a sense of gain as well as loss.
This review of The Last Emperor (1987) was written by Laetitia K on 16 Aug 2008.
The Last Emperor has generally received very positive reviews.
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