On Monday, June 29, 2009 at 6:18:41 AM UTC-7, dd...@bellsouth.net wrote:

I think this is one of the most visually powerful movies I've ever
seen. The colors are absolutely sumptuous. The story line caught
interest and held it.
Was the idea of lighting lanterns to signal that a polygynist
husband would spend the night with that particular wife based on
something that actually happened in a family in China?

This movie was upload onto Youtube a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkczfQU767s&t=5552s

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