The Last Emperor
- Recounting the last years of China's Ching Dynasty through flashbacks and flash-forwards, this Oscar-winning epic charts the life of Pu Yi (John Lone) -- who ascended the throne at age 3 -- from coddled aristocrat to enlightened insurgent to ordinary citizen. Co-starring Peter O'Toole as Pu Yi's Scottish tutor and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, the lavish drama collected nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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- NYT Critics' Pick
- Modern Chinese history. Oscars for best picture, director Bertolucci. Read the review
- Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics
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The expanse of time is saturated with an expanse of visual beauty that feels absolutely right for the story. full review
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment WeeklyIt works astonishingly well. full review
Richard Schickel, TIME MagazineConstantly absorbing and tremendously interesting. full review
Todd McCarthy, VarietyIt'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. full review
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago ReaderThe Last Emperor is like an elegant travel brochure. It piques the curiosity. One wants to go. Ultimately it's a let-down. full review
Vincent Canby, New York TimesEverything involving the life of Pu Yi was a waste. Everything except one thing: the notion that a single human life could have infinite value. full review
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-TimesOne of those irresistible movie entertainments that works on so many different levels and offers so much for the senses to savor that it is likely to intimidate some people even more than it did 11 years ago. full review
Joe Baltake, Sacramento BeeA remarkable achievement. full review
Desson Thomson, Washington PostWe need more than elegant parallels and lavish production values. We need tension, characterization, drama. full review
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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- Release Year: 1987
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- Runtime: 165 min
- Available From: Mar 13, 2012
- Queued by: 551 people
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- Directed By
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Cast
- John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Victor Wong, Ying Ruocheng, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dennis Dun, Joan Chen, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger
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