IT'S A BIT SURPRISING, for a film about a woman in love with a poet, that there is so little actual poetry -- other than the melodramatic kind -- in "Zhou Yu's Train." Set in China, where a ...

Fans of Chinese film rejoice: Gong Li is back. Star of the mainland-Chinese classic Raise the Red Lantern, Gong Li took a break from acting to live as a housewife in Singapore for the past few years.

Everything in the Chinese puzzle of a romance that is Zhou Yu's Train – the jumbled narrative that moves randomly between past, present and future; the penchant for cryptic utterances; the appealing ...

Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her ...

Zhou Yu's TrainZhou Yu (Gong Li) takes the train every week to see her commitment-phobic poet boyfriend, only to meet another passenger with whom she begins an affair. Will she choose the brooding ...