Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Opens today at the Michigan Theater
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: C-

Lovely yet tepid, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is as thrilling as staring at an ornate tapestry until your eyes begin to cross — an overload of beauty mingled with stifling boredom. Adapted from Lisa See's book-club fave about the sanctity of friendship and intimacy, the film version is curiously dispassionate and remote, burdened by a twin timeline narrative that would bore in any era.

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