The Love Eterne
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Neutral, kinetic, measured musical / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend university.
Our read · The Love Eterne (1963) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive musical · romance · opera entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Love Eterne
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a lavish Huangmei opera of cross-dressing lovers and tragic fate.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if subtitled Chinese opera singing or doomed romance isn't your mood.
The reading.
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