Prince of Tears -- Film Review

September 09, 2009 Very pretty people seen against beautiful landscapes provide most of the enjoyment in Chinese director Yonfan's glossy melodrama set in Taiwan in the 1950s when the hunt for communists on the island led to the period known as the white terror. More a tale of personal betrayal than a depiction of a nation going through turmoil, the film might travel reasonably well in Asia but success elsewhere will have to rely on audiences' appetite for its romantic flourishes and fairy-tale wrapping. Sun-Han is a pilot, so the girls attend a school for children of pilots.

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