Pavilion of Women
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| Directed by | Yim Ho |
| Produced by | Luo Yan |
| Screenplay by | Luo Yan Paul Collins |
| Based on |
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck |
| Starring |
Willem Dafoe Luo Yan Sau Sek John Cho Yi Ding Chieng Mun Koh |
| Music by | Conrad Pope |
| Cinematography | Hang-Sang Poon |
| Edited by | Duncan Burns Claudia Finkle |
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Production
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Beijing Film Studio
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| Distributed by | Universal Focus |
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Running time
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126 minutes |
| Country | United States China |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $36,992 |
Pavilion of Women is a 2001 American drama film directed by Yim Ho and written by Luo Yan and Paul Collins. The film stars Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Sau Sek, John Cho, Yi Ding and Chieng Mun Koh. Tne film was released on May 4, 2001, by Universal Focus.
Pavilion of Women was met with negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 6% based on reviews from 31 critics, with an average score of 3.1/10. The site's consensus is: "Generating more suds than a soap opera, this adaptation of Pearl Buck's novel sinks under the weight of excess melodrama, stilted performances, and cheesy dialogue." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 26 out of 100 based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
The movie is based on the 1946 novel Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters, by Nobel-prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck.
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