"In A SOUL HAUNTED BY PAINTING, Huang's chronological narrative makes light of Yuliang the artist, audience is none the wiser where her talent comes from, how her skill and style is nurtured and developed, her latter days in France is merely sketchily touched on. In lieu, the film is predominantly keen on showing up the injustice inflicted on her as a woman. From the horror in the bordello, she is no longer a virgo intacta (ravished by her pimp) and obliviously drugged to be sterile even before her very first client, to the wrongs piled on her after gaining fame for her paintings abroad when she is constantly at the receiving end of sexism and male chauvinism."

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