Beauty Remains (Mei Ren Yi Jiu)

Film Reviews: As firmly fixated on a bygone China, and working with a mix of Chinese and American artists as she was on her previous "Shadow Magic," helmer Ann Hu produces an unappealing, stiff melodrama in 1948-set "Beauty Remains." Love triangle pitting sisters in a wealthy household against each other is an artificially decorated pulp romance trapped somewhere between an outsider's and insider's view of cultural and domestic turmoil. Performing mildly in local February runs, pic will find most auds yawning at what looks like a rehash of a Chinese cinema mode past its prime.

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