Piao liang ma ma

Gong Li for me has been in more great films then anyone else and this one is as good as any. Sure this type of film has been done loads of times before, but rarely if ever better. I also think this Gong Li performance is, along with 'the Story of Qiu Ju' and 'To Live', the best she's ever done and cerements her reputation as one of the Greatest Actors about. Well for me she is the Greatest if the Oscars actually looked at actors in foreign films then Gong Li's house would be full of them. I really do loves this film it's wonderfully directed and paced and also stays away from a Hollywood (lets rap everything up with a nice explained happy ending) ending. This film also benefits from having a child actor who is actually good and the rest of the cast is good as well especially Jing-Ming shi and Xiuqing Yue. My only problem with the film is that the character Da He (Xiuqing Yue) disappears half way into the film but that's only a little complaint because I think this film is brilliant. 10/10.