22 minutes to witness how Zhang Yimou weaponized yellow chrysanthemums into cinematic warfare.
Behind the scenes look at the making of Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower".
Production
The sheer scale of those flower carpets will break your brain.
Costume
Gong Li's wardrobe: heavier than your emotional baggage.
Direction
Zhang Yimou micromanaging color palettes like a tyrant poet.
Director
Stanley J. Orzel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The flower carpet required 10,000 real chrysanthemums changed daily for two weeks of shooting. The smell was apparently 'unforgettable.'
This was Zhang Yimou's pivot to wuxia after 'Hero' and 'House of Flying Daggers'—the documentary captures him chasing his own aesthetic legacy.
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