A Lifetime movie lobbed at the art house crowd, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a grandiose, often gobsmackingly ludicrous historical melodrama that makes even Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s most ...

What should be a moving testament to the enduring friendship between two Chinese women instead plays like a bewildering apologia for co-dependency issues in “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.” Mawkish, ...

The film, produced by Wendi Murdoch and Florence Sloan, demonstrates that Wayne Wang remains one of the world’s best directors of women. By Kirk Honeycutt Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Review 2011 ...

And just as Bollywood (perhaps a patronising term we should dispense with along with the aforementioned “world” prefix) has been upgraded into being taken seriously as an important stand-alone genre ...

A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.

In trying to give a modern twist to “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan’s” bestselling story of women and friendship in 19th century China, director Wayne Wang has been tripped up by his chick-lit ...