A major box-office success in China, this film is a mixed bag of caustic satire, cross-cultural capers, and regrettable sentimentality. Revered American filmmaker Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) is in China to make a LAST EMPEROR-style mega-epic in the Forbidden City when filmmaker's block strikes. Despite the support of his gal Friday, Lucy (Rosamund Kwan), Tyler sinks into a deep depression and motivate himself to get the already behind-schedule project up and running until he starts talking to down-and-out cameraman Yo Yo (Ge You), who's on set to make a promotional "Making Of" documentary. Yo Yo becomes indispensable to Tyler's artistic rebound, but isn't shooing a...
Released:
2002
Rated:
n/a
Length:
108 mins