Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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by jodie_e_a

Seeing a film after reading the book is almost always somewhat disappointing. I expected that the movie would not be as good as the book but I didn't expect it to be as awful as it was. This movie...

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Visually Beautiful, Worth Seeing.....

by Alon Patterson

I liked this film, although I admit it probably wouldn't appeal to the broader film audience here in the U.S. If only more American films were photographed as professionally as this. The whole...

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by carlyh88

Loved the book and the movie though it might have been better if the movie eliminated the modern track of the story and stuck to the original story in the book... enjoyed seeing sexy Hugh Jackman....

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Kirk Honeycutt

So strong are the emotions - and, yes, the melodrama - that Snow Flower and the Secret Fan represents one of Wang's best films to date. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Carrie Rickey

The connection between the two time frames and stories (the contemporary one with the addition of screenwriters) is flimsy as a frayed rope bridge, forced as the stepsister's foot into Cinderella's glass slipper. Read full review

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Miami Herald
| Connie Ogle

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan moves slowly, languidly; its art direction is often lovely, and despite their truncated screen time Lily and Snow Flower do make you care about their fates. But you would have cared more without all the distraction. Read full review

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Movieline
| Stephanie Zacharek

To invoke Pauline Kael's review of Diane Kurys's "Entre Nous," it's about two women not having a lesbian affair. Read full review

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A scene from ``Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.''