The Banquet was a gorgeous but bloody tale of ancient China. Beautiful costumes, sets and music. I always like to see at least 1 bamboo forest in every festival and the scenes in this theatre in the forest were unbelievable. Lovely to see the beautiful Ziyi Zhang (of House of Flying Daggers and Memoirs of a Geisha) in action.
Essentially, it is a retelling of Hamlet so everybody dies and they're pretty sneaky about it (here, take my wine, oh, it's poisoned.... here, grab my sword, oh, it's poisoned.) And of course, the poison is the most deadly thing on earth (next to the human heart ;-)
If you like Crouching Tiger, you'll like this. Another 2 hour investment. MMMM
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