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The Grandmaster

Yut doi jung si (Yi dai zong shi) (Yidai zongshi) (The Grandmasters) (The Grandmaster)

2013

Wong Kar-Wai

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Benshan, Chang Chen ...

6.0

6,225

Drama. Action The story of martial-arts and the soul of China civilization. Two kung fu masters —Ip Man (Tony Leung), the man who trained Bruce Lee, and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), who comes from the north, meet in Ip Man's hometown of Foshan on the eve of the Japanese invasion in 1936. Gong Er's grandfather, a renowned grandmaster, is also traveling to Foshan for his retirement ceremony, which is to take place at the legendary brothel The Golden Pavilion. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"Is less Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and much more a study of ideas and textures (...) The rewards, however, are considerable: the discipline of the genre seem to have channelled Wong's flair for image-making away from the self-involved blind alleys his last few films have taken him up; The Grandmaster is something pretty special."	POS
United States	Maggie Lee Variety	"Wong Kar Wai exceeds expectations with 'The Grandmaster,' (...) Boasting one of the most propulsive yet ethereal realizations of authentic martial arts onscreen, as well as a merging of physicality and philosophy not attained in Chinese cinema since King Hu's masterpieces"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"'The Grandmaster' is, at its most persuasive, about the triumph of style"	POS
United States	Clarence Tsui The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Grandmaster' is infused with melancholy and a near-existentialist resignation to the uncertainties of fate"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"'The Grandmaster', five years in the making, feels like a waste of Wong’s talents (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Tony Leung plays Ip Man with his old-movie charisma and reserve, but the film, despite a few splendid fights, is a biohistorical muddle that never finds its center. Maybe that's because — big mistake! — it never gets to Bruce Lee"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"You leave this deeply flawed, deeply beautiful film with no doubt that you've seen an indisputable cinematic grandmaster in action. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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