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Dai Sijie's dramatic story of star-crossed lesbian love, The Chinese Botanist's Daughters stars Mylene Jampanoi as Li Min, an orphan since the age of three who gets a job as assistant to a botanist. W... read more read more...hile on the island where they do their research, Li Min falls in love with the botanist's daughter. The two secretly engage in a sexually charged relationship that blossoms into true love. When the scientist's son arrives home after some time in the military, the commanding old man forces the son to marry Li Min. When the son discovers that his new bride has had sex before their wedding night, tragedy ensues. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Sijie Dai

Release Date: April 26, 2006

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  • 5oclockcoffee
    February 25, 2011
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  • InaHH
    June 29, 2007
    InaHH
    Visually simply amazing and wonderfully subtle, the tension between the two women is sensual, palpable, poetic even. This film could be watched without any sound at all and be understood just through its visuals. The longing looks, the lingering of the camera on the skin, the ama... read morezing scenery... Very powerful film.
  • jkujp
    July 20, 2009
    jkujp
    I was deeply heart-broken with sudden apathetic ending, Lamenting what the local authority has done to the two lovely young human beings. For a child began the life finding herself all alone with star crossed bad luck, Li Min seemed so sweet without instilling bitterness in her ... read morepersonality, She has also began developing sense of being a good member of community and respect for virtue of hard working. What else could you ask for a child who have survived through such a catastrophic disaster? Being a sole survivor escaped from such a catastrophic earthquake that killed a quarter million people and found herself all alone at daybreak on 4 a.m., July 28, 1976. She has grown to be a lovable young adult without a mean twist in her personality. Her preference seeking a female companion was really a negligible issue in the modern world. Love relationship between women has been accepted practice in the both Western and Eastern Imperial Courts amongst high ranking Court Ladies in Waiting (Japan in particular). The two girls deserve every rights to be happy with the person she loves.

    Someone like Li Min who had qualified government assisted internship, she could also have looked into training in medical field such as nurse or pharmacist An Chen would have easily qualified her for all kind of public funded academic programmes for her father being a famous professor of herbal medicine at the Medical Department of Kumming University.

    The two girls had potential to be successful lifetime companionship with a respectable socio-economic standing.. All needed was an open-minded love with a sense of altruistic insight in Professor Chen. Once they are trained as nurse or pharmacist. they could have worked and lived anywhere in the world. What a waste of two precious young lives! It was the fault of close-minded community incapable for thinking of letting them attaining skills to survive except use them as maid servants. It is a social crime to undermine woman's ability in this manner.
    If the society continues to label and hold down Li Min and An Chen unemployable, such socio-economic loss can become global loss

    An exceptionally lovely persona of Li Min played by Mylène Jampanoï makes it so hard not learning to love her. 19 Century librettist Honore de Balzac stated that "AWoman's beauty is a priceless treasure" The statement aptly applies to her in every aspects. Since I read and speak Chinese and French, Opening statement by Li Min alone regarding the death of her parents shed my tears. It was much more so painful to listen to her reading the last letter sent to the head mistress of orphanage "put our ash on the surface of the lake by the temple so that we can stay in peace" What a merciless world is it? It made me so sad that I could not listen to the very end. It really broke my heart to acknowledge that they are no longer together in this world.

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