Fan Bingbing stars as an emperor’s wife having her portrait painted in this artful yet inert period drama
The film’s subject is Jean-Denis Attiret , a real-life French Jesuit missionary who spent half of his 60-odd years employed as the Chinese court painter. His trickiest commission, recalled here, came from the emperor’s bored wife , thirsting to preserve an image that might turn her indifferent husband’s head.
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