Reviewed by rch427 6 / 10 Evocative but emptyįirst, a disclaimer: I love so-called "art films", from Cocteau and Eisenstein to David Lynch and Krystof Kieslowski. Is she dreaming? Women fade, or connive, or despair. Pearl, an aging flower, schools the willful Jade, who thinks she has a marriage agreement with young master Zhu.
The melancholy Wang is Crimson's patron will he leave her for the younger Jasmin? Emerald schemes to buy her freedom, aided by patron Luo. The atmosphere is stifling, as if Chekhov was in China. The women live within dark-paneled walls. The men gather around tables of food, playing drinking games.
In Shanghai in the 1880s there are four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (called madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training.
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