"Princess Yang Kwei Fei"
1955
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi's film about a young servant girl who is transformed into a princess and then destroyed by the shifting loyalties, betrayal and revenge around her. Mizoguchi's use of color, decor and diagonal compositions is fluid and baroque and perfectly reflects the characters' emotional conditions. "One of the most beautiful films ever to treat beauty as a subject" (Andrew Sarris). With Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo and So Yamamura. Japanese with English subtitles.
125 minutes.