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• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A self-proclaimed art film that has definite camp classic potential. Lurid camerawork, sumptuous cinematography, and an evocative soundtrack help matters, but Yon Fan's cinematic poem about love, lust, S&M, and all things in between is a decidedly impenetrable motion picture. It's A Chinese Ghost Story meets the works of Betty Page! With The Crying Game and Wong Kar-Wai thrown in for good measure! Director Yeung Fan AKA Yon Fan, maestro of such gorgeous works as Bishonen and Peony Pavilion, brings us Colour Blossoms, the movie that asks, "What would you do to entice your dream lover?" Or perhaps it asks, "Is pure love impossible?" Or, with regards to lead actress Teresa Chiang, it could be asking, "Would you believe the body on this forty year-old woman?" If those are your questions, then Colour Blossoms may have your answer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars (Trans-)Desires and the Filmic Cut, September 20, 2009

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Danielle Verena Kollig "Verena" (Charlottesville, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colour Blossoms (DVD)

Seeking for further titles within the sections of East Asian art cinema (and these categories have always been, as I see it, way more receptive to sexual depictions - in their beauty, not in their explicitiness! - than the 'Western sphere' (again a notion which would require clarification...), I stumbled over reviews of 'Colour Blossoms'. It turned out they were at best well-meaning, it seemed as no one (or hardly anyone) was excited about the film, but many admitted that the film was powerful in its design, its colorful takes and scenes. Well, in many East Asian works of art cinema, the picture is more important than a consistent story line, and do I decided to give the film a chance.

And I have not regretted one single minute of my time I devoted to this work. Admittedly: the storyline is full of cuts and gaps, starts without any explanations, and it is the spectator's hard work to figure out how the scenes are related. Ony in the end the character played by the immensely enchanting Harisu (who, it turns out, is more a femme fatale, even a Venus Flytrap, than anyhing else, but exactly this makes her so brilliant) explain how the filmic takes together form a plot. This film is about the changing, altering, manipulated and manipulating, all in all: the trans-gendered and hence transitioning body. It gives the transgender a voice, introducing him or her to the potential of desiring. Between colorful impressios of blue, yellow, and red, these raptures are just logical, and they eventually contribute to the filmic pleasure for the spectator.

Take you time for this film, allow yourself to think, and to desire, and then you may love it (it still remains a question of taste).