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Rateds: PG-13, Unrated; Genres: Drama, Historical; With: Joan Chen, John Lone and Peter O'Toole; Distributor: Columbia Pictures
B+
By Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson is a critic for EW. He lives in Brooklyn.

Numbingly beautiful, numbingly long, the director's cut of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 Best Picture winner clocks in at a taxing 218 minutes, with the extra hour mainly devoted to unnecessary extended footage of sumptuous chinoiserie. B+


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Posted Mar 05, 1999
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