The Last Emperor (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) PG-13
1500 slaves. 353,260,000 royal subjects. Warlords. Concubines. And 2 wives. He was the loneliest boy in the world.
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: December 30, 2014
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Lone | |
Performer: | Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Dennis Dun, Victor Wong, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | |
Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci | |
Music by | David Byrne & Ryuichi Sakamoto | |
Screenwriting by | Mark Peploe |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Costume Design: James Acheson
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Original Score: Cong Su, David Byrne & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1987 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
As coolly lavish an epic as we may ever see.
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Los Angeles Times
There's probably a truly great movie in the story of Pu Yi, but The Last Emperor is not that movie. Still, what director Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) has accomplished here is both ambitious and impressive.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 4/4 --
If there is such a thing as voluptuous detachment, Bertolucci and John Lone have found it. Lone's achievement in his absorbing account of Pu Yi is to place him at a distance and yet make his plight totally involving.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3.5/4 --
As a resplendently gorgeous historical pageant of China in the 20th century, The Last Emperor is, visually at least, the most beautiful movie in years. But as an involving human drama about Pu Yi... it doggedly refuses to come to much dramatic life.
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Newhouse News Service
The most startling achievement of The Last Emperor is that it accomplishes what seems to have eluded Bertolucci for some time. He has found the small in the large and, in many ways, he has created what many thought impossible -- an intimate epic.
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Boston Globe
It is the grandeur of the boy king and his unreal opulent world that is best remembered, splendid and isolated, and at last, because of its loneliness, sad.
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United Press International
The visual magnificence of Bertolucci's film is so great that he has removed the project almost beyond criticism.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi, the Manchurian emperor of China who ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of three, is a prisoner in the palace he rules over. Outside, real power changes hands with each coup d'etat. Pu Yi grows to manhood, is tutored by a Westerner (Peter O'Toole), and marries a gorgeous princess (Joan Chen). However, the adult Pu Yi (John Lone) is destined for a communist reeducation camp when the war is over. From start to finish, Pu Yi is a passive antihero who can never come to grips with the idea that the absolute power conferred on him as a child was only a mirage. The mistakes Pu Yi made trying to realize that power, especially collaborating with the Japanese during the war, provide Bertolucci with the chance to explore his familiar theme of collaboration and its moral consequences (as he did in THE CONFORMIST and 1900). In the end, Pu Yi seems to have reached a kind of peace, and the terrible waste of a special man's life disappears into a drab, grey-clad Beijing.
Keywords:
Politics
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True Story
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Epic
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Recommended
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Character Study
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Period Piece
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Orient
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Royalty
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Theatrical Release
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China
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Essential Cinema
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