the miss star and who compete for the golden lion at 2006 venice film festival and be a film that and when you think about and the first adjective that come to your mind be represent intense . intense look and intense sequence and this movie intensity capture the viewer since the very first scene at the steelworks and in italy ( i couldn not recognize the city and maybe genoa or even naples ) and although the pace be quite slow . vincenzo buonavolontà and the male lead and and with him and all the audience and see a completely different china than a normal westerner imago represent horrible high rise building with about 8 hundred flat owner inside and skyscraper and desolation and fog and scraper and crane everywhere and but also the beauty of the yangtze kiang river and that will soon become a big lake because of the controversial dike that will wipe a lot of town out . china be a country under construction and but and under all these colossal public work and there be still poverty and backwardness and unfair law . we can relate more easily to this story because gianni amelio and the expert director and choose two phenomenal lead represent sergio castellitto and a well know actor in italy and and the chinese surprise tai ling and a total unknown girl that give an a intense interpretation a castellitto . the film be not perfect and there be some flaw here and there and but that doesn not mean it a mediocre film . try to see it .