Its director Wayne Wang now has a new film, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," that also explores the intimate lives of women and girls. The film is based on Lisa See's best-selling novel, and opens in ...

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 ...

These days, Wayne Wang works in two different modes as a filmmaker and they rarely intersect. The Wang responsible for sizable operations like “Maid in Manhattan” and “Because of Winn-Dixie” has ...

FANS of Lisa See's bestselling novel, “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, can't have been surprised when the book was made into a film. A tale of sworn friendship between two women in 19th-century China ...

SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN is an endearing drama of female bonding across many generations in China based on a novel of the same name. Director Wayne Wang did an admirable job relating the book ...

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 ...