Product Details

• Actors: Gong Li, Fang Cen, Shichang Da, Er Dongsheng, Zunxia Gao
• Directors: Shuqin Huang
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Cantonese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Knight
• DVD Release Date: June 15, 2004
• Run Time: 130 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0001Z4PJG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,408 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "A Soul Haunted by Painting" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lesser Known , but no less Laudable, July 25, 2005

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This review is from: A Soul Haunted by Painting (DVD)

"A Soul Haunted by Painting" starring the incomparable Gong Li is one of her lesser publicized efforts, but no less commendable performances as the chinese painter, Pan Yuliang, whose work was largely rejected in China due to its nude content, but adored in Paris, where she ultimately studies and resides. The film follows the arc of her tortured existence, from being sold into prostitution as a teen, to her life as a minor wife of a Chinese Diplomat, to ultimately being posthumously regarded as one of the greatest painters of Chinese descent.

The detractions however, are not with this film, but with the quality of this DVD's release, which almost seems to be a copy, of a copy, of a print. Perhaps in some ways not even Gong Li's wonderful career and performance can save Pan Yuliang from what appears to be a continuos disregard, and minimalizing of her abilities and significance. The puzzling quality of this release in this day and age, is most assuredly no mistake.