Raise the Red Lantern review – Gong Li gives a decade-defining performance in an addictively ruthless masterpiece

Gong simmers with rage, loneliness and humiliation as the ‘fourth mistress’ navigating the intimate political savagery of her husband’s compound in Zhang Yimou’s 1991 thriller Revisiting Zhang Yimou’s grippingly addictive psychological drama from 1991, adapted from a novella by…

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