This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his childhood from prison. He remembers his lavish youth in the Forbidden City, where he was afforded every luxury but unfortunately sheltered from the outside world and complex political situation surrounding him. As revolution sweeps through China, the world Pu-Yi knew is dramatically upen... (Full plot summary below)
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This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his childhood from prison. He remembers his lavish youth in the Forbidden City, where he was afforded every luxury but unfortunately sheltered from the outside world and complex political situation surrounding him. As revolution sweeps through China, the world Pu-Yi knew is dramatically upended.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEverything involving the life of Pu Yi was a waste. Everything except one thing: the notion that a single human life could have infinite value. |
| Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanIf there is such a thing as voluptuous detachment, Bertolucci and John Lone have found it. Lone's achievement in his absorbing account of Pu Yi is to place him at a distance and yet make his plight totally involving. |
| Time OutBrian CaseJohn Lone is superb as the sad mediocrity; and if spectacle finally triumphs over sympathy, it is not without a decent struggle. |
| Slant MagazineArthur Ryel-LindseyThe Last Emperor is most decisively a lesson of nobility. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...a big, beautiful film that suffers only from an indifferent transfer to DVD. ...its human drama and sheer spectacle manage to catch and hold our attention. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumIt's a tribute to the film's intelligence and its feeling for dialectics that it views both the Forbidden City and the detention center as prisons, and that when Pu Yi winds up as a gardener there's a sense of gain as well as loss. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseWorks the brain in two-part harmony: the melody skids effortlessly across the historical timeline of the Ching dynasty, China's last, and the harmony part is all aesthetic appeal... [Blu-ray] |
| GuardianPeter BradshawThere's no doubting its spectacular richness and heartfelt, deeply satisfying storytelling. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterWhile it is a long film with slower moments, the parallel personal and political stories are compelling enough to keep the viewer interested throughout. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellAn involving look at the life of an emperor forced to give up all that he knew only to realize he never had everything he wanted. |
