Review of The Last Emperor (1987) by Jonathan Rosenbaum for Chicago Reader — 19 Aug 2004
It'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.
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This review of The Last Emperor (1987) was written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Reader on 19 August 2004.
The Last Emperor has generally received very positive reviews.
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