Rotten
Li fails to stoke much heat in Sun Zhou's pretentious and symbolic love triangle.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Zhou Yu's Train
A woman torn between a man and a memory
2002 · 1h 37m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Sun Zhou
Overview
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Beautiful to look at but aimless as a broken compass.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Fresh
Zhou Yu's Train has its strengths, but it's clearly no bullet train.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
This is one of those languid numbers where slow motion -- and there's lots of it -- is meant to signify poetry, and a line like 'I know my lake is artificial, but it's full of water' is supposed to seem lyrical.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
The effort required at the end of Zhou Yu's Train to sort out exactly what just went down isn't worth the payoff.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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