Thursday, January 22, 2009

A time to love / Qing Ren Jie (China, 2005)



A boy (Hou Jia) and a girl (Qu Ran) who love each other, but the love isn’t meant to be because their parents won’t agree with it. This story doesn’t sound very innovating and reminds us of the number one of love stories: Romeo & Juliet. In this film, there is also often referred to this classic Shakespeare story which works well, because Romeo and Juliet always keeps interesting.

When Hou Jia and Qu Ran are going to the cinema to see a film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet I was very relieved the director chose the film of 1968 (by director Franco Zeffirelli, in my eyes the best adaptation of this story. It really brought back memories, for the first time I saw it in my first year in high school and though most students thought it was boring I fell in love with this Romeo and Juliet film at first time.

A time to love is maybe not too innovating but it is really good. This film is all about love and its difficulties. How long will you wait for the one you love? A question that refers to your own heart, to the one you love mostly, and than you will know the answer. It is not really a long wait, cause the moment you see eachother again you won't remember the period you were apart from each other.

Sometimes the scenes really take your breath away, so beautiful they are. When Qu Ran undresses herself slowly, a tear in her eyes show the love and pain she feels. These little things make this movie a really wonderful experience. The acting is great, especially by Zhao Wei. Her appearance is of course beautiful, but also very pure.


A simple, but well directed story of love.

5 comments:

paradise lost said...

i watched Romeo and juliet(the film of 1968 is very classical)when iwas in primary school,i liked that actress soo much..qing ren jie is abeautiful film,but too many people watched it,i appreciate zhang wei's performance,her eyes are beautiful..i think she did more wonderful than lu yi..i like ur wonderful writing aswell..

paradise lost said...

well..heh..i mean not too many people ever watched it,its sth like arts film...

Anonymous said...

Hi

looks cool and nice

Where should i start reading?

thanks

Anonymous said...

Hi

looks cool and nice

Where should i start reading?

thanks

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