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Zhao Wei steals show in Painted Skin 2
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Chinese audiences have taken Painted Skin: The Resurrection into their hearts and they have made it the highest grossing China-made movie of all-time, not to mention raking in the third-highest grossing opening weekend in our neighboring country’s history.
So it has quite a bit to live up to and doesn’t disappoint. If you missed the first installment of Painted Skin, four years ago, there is no need to worry as the familiar faces are there and you can always catch up online later.
The movie is the breakthrough performance for Zhao Wei as Princess Jing who has been called the ‘the most beautiful scarred woman ever seen’ in China.
And this is definitely a movie for the fairer sex as the two strong female leads basically run the show and the bond between Jing and Xiaowei (Zhou Xun) is strong despite their real life rivalry and they light up the screen with strong performances allied to a powerful script.
The mythical period movie,
directed by Wu Ershan (The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman), is plugged as an action fantasy but it is more an old-fashioned love story with a strong heroic male hero in General Huo Xin (Chen Kun).
Xiaowei reprising her role from Painted Skin 1 is the fox demon who has been imprisoned under ice after saving humans last time out. Her stunning looks attract female bird demon Quer (Yang Mi) who pecks away until Xiaowei is free to exact vengeance. To regain her youthful beauty she has to eat human hearts but her real dream is to be human and to do so she needs someone to give her their heart through freewill.
Sounds complicated but then we get to the gist of the romance between Jing and Xin. Jing was mauled by a bear when she was a teenager and now wears a gold mask to hide her scars from the attack.
Jing feels rejected by Xin and turns to Xiaowei, who proposes they swap faces and bodies, at the price of taking possession of Jing’s heart.
If that is not enough to tempt you folks I don’t know what will.
Also in town this weekend is Disney release The Odd Life of Timothy Green fantasy drama directed by
Peter Hedges.
Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) , a couple residing in Stanleyville, are haunted by the fact that they are unable to conceive, so for fun and to put a positive twist on a sad situation they decide to paint a picture of their ideal child and write the child’s measurements and characteristics and write the story of his imaginary life on pieces of paper and put them in a box and bury it in their backyard and then get back to their childless but happy life.
One evening after a fierce storm a ten-year-old boy arrives at their doorstep, claiming he is their son. Soon they realize that the child, named Timothy (CJ Adams), is actually a plant, and is a culmination of all their wishes.
The movie has been criticized as being both too sentimental and too odd and the fantasy is a bit weird to be honest and will not be many people’s cup of tea. You can make up your own minds at a cinema near you.
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Trekking to highlands, sleeping in trees
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20/11/2012 08:37:42
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In the process of developing tourism industry
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20/11/2012 08:33:24
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New appearance of ethnic wellbeing crucial
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20/11/2012 08:29:27
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Gaint Cham temple of Po Nagar
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20/11/2012 08:26:06
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Welcome HCM - Spanish cultural week
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20/11/2012 08:16:30
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Vietnamese devotional objects in Thai Binh province has been restored
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20/11/2012 08:13:00
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VIB funds Vietnam Airlines for new Airbus A321 aircrafts
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20/11/2012 08:10:00
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