
The Lovers
Life is fleeting as a butterfly.
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Release Date
8/13/1994Runtime
107 minsOverview
In 3A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, parents dress a very pretty, very privileged girl like a boy so she may be educated in a local boarding school. There, she falls in love with a poor, but handsome and industrious young man.
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A delicate period romance where forbidden love blooms across class lines in ancient China, colored by the awareness that beauty and youth are fleeting. The film embraces romantic yearning alongside the melancholy knowledge that some loves cannot survive the world's constraints.
Mood
RomanticWistfulBittersweetMelancholic
Themes
LoveComing of ageIdentityClass
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Meditative
Look
PainterlyNaturalistic
Structure
Linear
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