The Children of Huang Shi

A decadent, exotic city, the brink of war, the sweep of history, a gang of scruffy urchins, the lips and eyes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers -- these are the main ingredients in Roger Spottiswoode's "The Children of Huang Shi," a small-scale, would-be epic about an inexperienced British journalist whose accidental arrival in Japanese-occupied Nanking leads to the heroic rescue of 60 Chinese orphans.

"Les Orphelins de Huang Shi" : chromos de la guerre sino-japonaise On aimerait être sinologue pour déterminer par quel processus un réalisateur occidental (l'Australien Roger Spottiswoode) s'est mis au service de la cause maoïste, tout en utilisant les recettes les plus éculées du film hollywoodien. En attendant, il faut se contenter du résultat final : un film à grand spectacle, qui mobilise tout [...] Vai alla recensione »

A Hollywood weepie snuggled inside a humanitarian tribute, “The Children of Huang Shi” molds the true story of the English reporter George Hogg (played by the Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers) into a chaste love triangle given urgency by the Japanese invasion of China. The children? They're there too, holed up in a crumbling orphanage eating worm-infested grain and unaware that their soon-to-be savior [...] Vai alla recensione »