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THEATRICAL RELEASE NUMBERS Box Office : $682,504details... CONSENSUS Memoirs of a Geisha may be a lavish production, but it still carries the simplistic air of a soap opera.CAST & CREW Ziyi Zhang , Ken Watanabe , Gong Li Directed by Rob Marshall more... SYNOPSIS more... MPAA RATING RUNTIME RELEASE COMPANY GENRE Dramas , Drama , Prostitution , Romance , Slavery , World War II , Betrayal , Japan , Women OFFICIAL SITE The Official Memoirs of a Geisha Site
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"The actors are hamstrung from the very beginning by the Westernized material -- everyone speaks English at all times -- and by the bland direction from Rob Marshall." -- Jeffrey M. Anderson COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID "Despite his mainstream-heavy sensibility Marshall has crafted a textured film companion to Arthur Golden's stunning masterwork." -- Jeanne Aufmuth AUFMUTH.COM "An epic romantic period piece with deeply felt performances, beautiful costumes and exquisitely framed sets, Geisha pretty much defines the phrase "Oscar contender."" -- Kit Bowen HOLLYWOOD.COM "Shows how a small act of kindness, like a pebble thrown into a pond, can send out many ripples, and transform another's life." -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH "A bloated melodrama more interested in poses than inner lives (according to some Japanese-culture-vultures, it gets the poses wrong, too)." -- Peter Canavese GROUCHO REVIEWS "An Eastern movie made to resemble the most unchallenging Western ideal of what the East is." -- Jeffrey Chen REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS "...if ever a movie represented Hollywood marketing, this is it." -- Laura Clifford REELING REVIEWS "You have to appreciate the attention to detail and the beauty imbued into every scene by Rob Marshall and his crew" -- Edward Douglas COMINGSOON.NET "It’s not a great movie, or even a particularly good one, but it’s spectacular." -- Scott Foundas L.A. WEEKLY "More like Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Memoirs of a Geisha ." -- Ed Gonzalez SLANT MAGAZINE "the film reaches an anti-climatic flat note that leaves the audience wondering why people love the book so much." -- Stefan Halley HERO REALM "It does indeed feel like Thousand Oaks, CA, rather than Land of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms." -- Richard Horgan FILMSTEW.COM
"Ziyi is radiant, as real as the script allows -- just not Japanese. Sweetly shot overall, though a dismal mood dominates. Otherwise somewhat simple and soapy." -- Ross Anthony HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD "the world of the film is so narrow that pre-occupation Japan looks like a feudal Disneyland, where everybody knew their place and the cherry blossoms were always falling" -- Chris Barsanti FILMCRITIC.COM "Though Spielberg once almost took the helm, the picture that we have here indicates that Marshall was the perfect man to bring Arthur Golden's amazing best seller to the screen." -- Jules Brenner (FC) CINEMA SIGNALS "It's not a movie...it's a fashion show!" -- Sean Burns PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY "Icky." -- Walter Chaw FILM FREAK CENTRAL "In essence Chicago comes closer to capturing that life of artists and performance; Memoirs is just whoring for a little prestige known as the Oscars." -- Erik Childress EFILMCRITIC.COM "The story is pretty simple but the film, like the book, is about the details and this is what attracts to "Memoirs of a Geisha."" -- Robin Clifford REELING REVIEWS "It skips lightly over the surface of its rich material, more preoccupied with making pretty pictures than dipping below the surface so that you can experience the world through the eyes of its traumatized, yet increasingly savvy, heroine." -- David Edelstein SLATE "These extreme displays of artifice are lovely and a little daunting. They are also rather grimly exalted by the camera." -- Cynthia Fuchs POPMATTERS "Sumptuous and exotic, this Asian Cinderella story unveils an ancient, refined tradition - albeit at a sluggish pace - and stars three exquisite actresses." -- Susan Granger MODAMAG.COM "Feels more like a calculated product than a work of art." -- Edward Havens FILMJERK.COM "As gorgeous as it is lifeless." -- Frank Houston PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS
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"Memoirs of a Geisha is worthwhile on many levels, although it lacks the depth of feeling that would have elevated it from a good movie to a romance for the ages." -- James Berardinelli REELVIEWS "In the luxuriant Memoirs of a Geisha , three of the biggest and loveliest stars of Chinese cinema -- Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li -- sharpen their talons." -- Jami Bernard NEW YORK DAILY NEWS "Spanning two decades and a momentous war, Memoirs of a Geisha displays all the pomp and grandeur of an epic, but you wouldn't call it sweeping." -- Carina Chocano LOS ANGELES TIMES "Swathed in silk and longing (mostly for a bald guy called Oscar), the big-screen version of Memoirs of a Geisha arrives with good intentions firmly in place." -- Manohla Dargis NEW YORK TIMES "There is spectacle enough in Marshall’s movie -- rows of geisha trainees aligned in formation like Rockettes, acres of low, cedar-and-bamboo buildings with mountains in the distance -- but nothing that comes close to lyricism." -- David Denby NEW YORKER "I object to the movie not on sociological grounds but because I suspect a real geisha house floated on currents deeper and more subtle than the broad melodrama on display here." -- Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "You've always got something to look at -- whether its Sayuri's exquisitely painted face or the perfect twirl of a gorgeously flowered umbrella. But the storytelling is soap-opera banal." -- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION "The filmmakers make characters crasser, ignore nuances within geisha tradition and give characters attitudes and dialogue highly unlikely for Depression-era Japan." -- Kirk Honeycutt HOLLYWOOD REPORTER "This is a movie for the ear and the eye, not the brain and the heart." -- Peter Howell TORONTO STAR "It oozes importance, is heavy with worthiness and lies there, waiting to be appreciated for the beautiful thing it is." -- Mick LaSalle SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"[G]ives you a real feeling of what it must have been like in old Japan, especially with all the pretty paper lanterns hanging around, and the beautiful kimonos the girls all wear." -- MaryAnn Johanson FLICK FILOSOPHER
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