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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792856276
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792856279
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: ChineseOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitledEnglishDubbedFrenchDubbedSpanishDubbed
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D1004712D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2003
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1994

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
One of the best films of 1994, To Live is a bold, energetic masterpiece from Zhang Yimou, the foremost director from China's influential "fifth generation" of filmmakers. Continuing his brilliant collaboration with China's best-known actress Gong Li (their previous films include Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), Zhang weaves an ambitious tapestry of personal and political events, following the struggles of an impoverished husband and wife (Ge You, Gong Li) from their heyday in the 1940s to the hardships that accompanied the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. They raise two children amidst a Communist regime, surviving numerous setbacks and yet managing, somehow, to live. Both intimate and epic, Zhang's film encompasses the simplest and most profound realities of Chinese life during this controversial period, and for their honesty, Zhang and Gong Li faced a two-year ban on future collaborations. To Live is a testament to their art, transcending politics to celebrate the tenacity of ordinary people in the wake of turbulent history. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Famine not explicitly portrayed
There is a subtle emphasis on food in the two movies of Yimou Zhang that I have seen, but no plain indication of the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1961, brought on by the so-called Great Leap Forward to an extent that has been debated. But the historical fact of it is not debated, whatever the whole truth about its causes and whatever the toll, whether 15 million or 36 million. Perhaps Chinese audiences do not need to be reminded of it, but some occidental audiences might need to understand this ... Read More

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- Horrors of communism unveiled
This is a fabulous movie and a testimony to the ability of Chinese film makers to tell the story. Hollywood could never put something like this together. It takes the main characters from the time they're newly married and wealthy to the poverty in sunset of their lives. They live quite the lives as they experience the horrors communism wreaks all about them. They go from disaster to disaster, losing everything they have but slowly realizing that they have only each other and that their family ... Read More

Rating:

- Inocence and generosity
If any of these virtues exist, it is in this movie. Great actors, I acclaim them, from the child to the old man.

Rating:

- Chinese history comes alive
"To Live" was recommended to me by a friend who heard I was reading the biography of Mao Tse Tung. The story follows the life of an average family starting in the 1940s in China and through the 1970s. It is great historical fiction, as you can see traumatic episodes in Chinese history like the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution" take place through the eyes of those who have no idea what is going on.

The message of this movie to me was that life is precious, no matter how ... Read More

Rating:

- BEST. MOVIE. EVER.
An amazing movie. It is one of Gong Li and Zhang Yimou's greatest collaboration. You must see it.

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