Beautiful visuals and tender romance feature in the tale of a couple caught up in changing times in China in the 1980s and ’90s
An affecting and magnificently photographed love story set in a Chinese mining town during the massive economic reforms of the 1980s and ‘90s, “The Poet” is the best film yet by Shanghai born writer-director Liu Hao (“Back to the North,” “Addicted to Love”). With subtlety and no small amount of eroticism, Liu shapes the tale […]
