Summer Palace is a Mandarin-language film about a willful, passionate young woman grappling with her feelings toward a man she falls madly in love with. Summer Palace is definitely not for everyone. The narrative meanders, the characters are enigmatic, the actors and most locations are unfamiliar to Westerners, and the music sometimes gives the movie a soapy quality. But filmmaker Lou Ye has an intriguing sensibility, and for the majority of people who like foreign films, this is one worth seeing. Find out more in the review of Summer Palace on DVD.

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