"Memoirs of a Geisha" VV review

[Christine Marran]

My favorite line in this hilarious review is:

"In this garish pageant of dragon-lady vamping and drag-queen catfights, 
the geisha experience is roughly akin to working the bar at Lucky Cheng's."



Kerim Yasar wrote:
> Here's the most entertaining review so far:
> 
> http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0549,lim,70711,20.html
> 
> My favorite bit:
> 
> "The overall aesthetic could be approximated by
> turning on a wind machine in a Chinatown souvenir
> emporium. With Marshall preoccupied picking out
> fabrics and lacquer veneers, the task of directing the
> actors seems to have fallen to the beleaguered dialect coach."
> 
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-- 
Christine L. Marran
Asst. Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota