| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Set in a high-end brothel towards the end of the 19th century, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI refuses assimilation, refuses any convenient context or trajectory. (To paraphrase Joyce, history is a nightmare from which no one particularly cares to awake.) Perhaps its true place is alongside the virtuoso, set-bound films of earlier era: Sternberg???s THE SHANGHAI GESTURE and ANATAHAN, or Fejos??? BROADWAY. Des
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