Have you ever met someone who illuminated your entire youth? College student Tong Zhi (Zhou Yiran) has had a crush on Gu Bin (Wu Nien Hsuan), an alumnus from Taipei, for four years. She crashes into his world, and he leads her to experience the recklessness and passion of her breathtaking youth. As graduation approaches, will she choose to keep her feelings secret or be brave enough to declare “I’ve always liked you”? [Sources: Far East Films and Douban]
Wu Jiakai and Zhang Zhihong co-direct this youth romance, an over-saturated genre in China these days, with a fairly generic cast of actors including Zhou Yiran, Wu Nien Hsuan, Carmen Tong and Weng Chuhan. This film is set to premiere in China on July 22, 2022.
Wu Jiakai and Zhang Zhihong co-direct this youth romance, an over-saturated genre in China these days, with a fairly generic cast of actors including Zhou Yiran, Wu Nien Hsuan, Carmen Tong and Weng Chuhan. This film is set to premiere in China on July 22, 2022.
- 7/15/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
This feature debut about a schoolgirl coerced into small-time smuggling is all the more powerful for shunning high drama
With this elegantly elliptical arthouse movie, Bai Xue announces herself as a cool, confident observer of a new generation of Chinese youth. There are echoes of Sofia Coppola in Bai’s directing debut, a coming-of-age story inspired by real-life criminal gangs in Hong Kong who recruit schoolkids to smuggle mobile phones into mainland China. It’s a wisp of film that never quite gathers speed or force but it gets under your skin, capturing the impulsiveness and impatience of teenagers. Others may find it a little flat or frustrating.
Huang Yao is shy 16-year-old Peipei, who’s frantically saving up for a holiday in Japan with her rich best friend Jo (Carmen Soup). Peipei commutes daily between her home in the Chinese city Shenzhen and school in Hong Kong. To make...
With this elegantly elliptical arthouse movie, Bai Xue announces herself as a cool, confident observer of a new generation of Chinese youth. There are echoes of Sofia Coppola in Bai’s directing debut, a coming-of-age story inspired by real-life criminal gangs in Hong Kong who recruit schoolkids to smuggle mobile phones into mainland China. It’s a wisp of film that never quite gathers speed or force but it gets under your skin, capturing the impulsiveness and impatience of teenagers. Others may find it a little flat or frustrating.
Huang Yao is shy 16-year-old Peipei, who’s frantically saving up for a holiday in Japan with her rich best friend Jo (Carmen Soup). Peipei commutes daily between her home in the Chinese city Shenzhen and school in Hong Kong. To make...
- 3/21/2019
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
The Peterloo Massacre of 1819, in which British magistrates sent cavalry with drawn swords into a political gathering of Manchester civilians, is an event not likely to be recollected in tranquility; and Mike Leigh’s Peterloo (2018) goes full agit-prop, with apoplectic hanging judges, heartless aristocrats, mercenaries advocating “violence, hatred, destruction,” and local governors declaring “We must be brutal!” On top of the mustache-twirling, Leigh coarsens his storytelling to remove ambiguity: character is conveyed via TV-style shorthand; sympathetic characters foreshadow the coming catastrophe; the historical context is signposted in the dialogue. And yet the film is still deeply impressive, with more evidence of Leigh’s greatness than any of his films since Vera Drake (2004). Despite his reputation for kitchen-sink naturalism, Leigh has always favored exaggerated acting that isolates and intensifies character traits, and this stylization, coupled with his intelligence about social behavior, blows away the obstacles of historical adaptation as if they didn’t exist.
- 9/17/2018
- MUBI
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