The Last Emperor
The film depicts the life of Pu Yi (John Lone), the last emperor of China, from his ascent to the throne as a small boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Communist Party of China.
June1944, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
26 April 1961, Shanghai, China
24 November 1954, Kanagawa, Japan
1951, Tokyo, Japan
19 April 1952, Stockton, California, USA
5 February 1966, Shanghai, China
17 January 1952, Tokyo, Japan
12 August 1952, Beijing, China
16 September 1942, New York City, New York, USA
19 January 1927, Beijing, China
January 07, 2014
One of the most visually arresting pictures of recent years.
January 07, 2014
It is a hesitant, conservative approach that yields great elegance and a rhythm that carries the viewer along. Yet the film is haunted by a sense of opportunities not taken, of an artist deliberately reining in his artistry.
September 07, 2011
The expanse of time is saturated with an expanse of visual beauty that feels absolutely right for the story.
January 07, 2014
The story is colorful and sometimes unpredictable, so it's rarely boring. But it's rarely much deeper than the emperor's favorite rice bowl.
August 23, 2016
It is the grandeur of the boy king and his unreal opulent world that is best remembered, splendid and isolated, and at last, because of its loneliness, sad.
February 17, 2015
As pure spectacle, "The Last Emperor" is a spellbinding peek behind the gate of a lost world.
January 07, 2014
If there is such a thing as voluptuous detachment, Bertolucci and John Lone have found it. Lone's achievement in his absorbing account of Pu Yi is to place him at a distance and yet make his plight totally involving.
February 21, 2015
One of the most provocative and stunningly beautiful films of the past 20 years.
January 07, 2014
At last a real, thought-provoking, eyeball-popping movie epic.
February 22, 2013
As coolly lavish an epic as we may ever see.
January 07, 2014
Even though its ambitions sometimes get the better of it, the film succeeds often enough to make us grateful that, even in our MTV age, a director like Bertolucci is still willing to get on the mat and grapple with Personality and History.
January 07, 2014
There's probably a truly great movie in the story of Pu Yi, but The Last Emperor is not that movie. Still, what director Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) has accomplished here is both ambitious and impressive.
