Saturday, January 12, 2008

Quite Remarkable (and I'm not even five minutes in!)

A Chinese adaptation of Hamlet has me mesmerized.

Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet is, so far, visually stunning. The film doesn't seem to be in print in the united states, but I picked up a used copy and started it today. Even though I'm not very far along, I'm hooked. The image is one of the first you see. He turns out to be the Hamlet analogue. He's studying art and dance in, I suppose, a Wittenberg of sorts.

More later (when I have more under my belt).

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