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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
With “House of Flying Daggers,” China’s all-time greatest movie director Zhang Yimou (“Raise the Red Lantern,” “Shanghai Triad”) detours into the lucrative world of martial-arts sword-and-sorcery begun with his earlier hit, “Hero.”
Nominated for an Academy Award for cinematography, “House” is an astonishing work of cinematic beauty filled with evocative storybook forests of green bamboo or autumn leaves. The sound design is remarkable, staging a series of ritualistic combat scenes between policemen and assassins that are stunning in their brevity, focusing the attention on the swish of cloth, the murmur of breath, or the rush
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