Xi tai

This seems to be quite a daring dark political satire and the Chinese audience lapped it up. Set in a theatre in Beijing during the formation of the republic of China, it uses a Peking opera troupe performing ' Farewell My Concubine' to lambast, sexual mores, government, political leaders and Chinese taste. It's also a classic farce of identity and misinformation. It is colourful, beautiful to look at and though sometimes the acting is quite broad and obvious, it matches the tone and works perfectly. It's setting of a theatre which is actually about 10 minutes from where I am living added to my delight. What was great was that at the end the audience started to applaud.

Seriously, there is only one female character and they screwed it. How could it be that stereotypical?

The opera itself was pretty impressive but all those punchlines made me laugh zero times and the pace in the middle section failed completely that I nearly fell asleep.

My parents gave it quite a good rate but I just couldn't get it at all...

Master Chen Peisi with polished 20 years of classic drama as the foundation, successfully adapted into a film, the success of the film is very wonderful! It seems natural, so that people who have seen the play to see the film do not feel any abrupt or discord, exquisite attention to detail, The film everywhere overflow generation of old artists on the art of awe, respect!