Pavilion of Women (R)

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Set in China in 1937, Madame Wu, on her 40th birthday decides to end her conjugal relationship with her husband and insists that he take a second wife. Her decision throws the family--one of the oldest in China--into an uproar. but she manages the transition as she does everything else in the extended family of over sixty relatives. Alone in her own quarters, she enjoys her new-found freedom and reads books denied her in the past. When her son begins English lessons, she too starts learning from the free-thinking missionary named Brother Andre, who changes her life when he falls in love with her.

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Drama, Romance
Opened May 4th, 2001

MovieGoer Review

It's1938 China, and the wife of a Chinese busies her husband with a new concubine and invites an American missionary into her household to tutor her family. She unexpectedly falls in love with him, but their short-lived affair is interrupte... MORE

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synopsis

Set in China in 1937, Madame Wu, on her 40th birthday decides to end her conjugal relationship with her husband and insists that he take a second wife. Her decision throws the family--one of the oldest in China--into an uproar. but she manages the transition as she does everything else in the extended family of over sixty relatives. Alone in her own quarters, she enjoys her new-found freedom and reads books denied her in the past. When her son begins English lessons, she too starts learning from the free-thinking missionary named Brother Andre, who changes her life when he falls in love with her.

details

Drama, Romance
Opened May 4th, 2001

MovieGoer Review

It's1938 China, and the wife of a Chinese busies her husband with a new concubine and invites an American missionary into her household to tutor her family. She unexpectedly falls in love with him, but their short-lived affair is interrupte... MORE