Winner of the Golden Bear for direction and Silver Bear for Best Actor in Berlin, “Black Coal, Thin Ice” skyrocketed Diao Yinan‘s fame in the festival circuit, despite the fact that it would take five years until his next work, “The Wild Goose Lake“
The part labyrinthal, part noir story begins in 1999, in Heilongjiang Province, when the dismembered parts of a human body appear in shipments of coal in different cities. Detective Zhang Zili is assigned to investigate, and with the help of a worker who discovers the clothes and the ID of the deceased, identify the body as coal worker Liang Zhijun. Further investigations lead Zhang, his partner Wang, and two more policemen to a parlor run by two brothers. The potential interview goes horribly wrong, with one of the suspects killing the two policemen and injuring Zhang, before he kills them both. After getting out of the hospital,...
The part labyrinthal, part noir story begins in 1999, in Heilongjiang Province, when the dismembered parts of a human body appear in shipments of coal in different cities. Detective Zhang Zili is assigned to investigate, and with the help of a worker who discovers the clothes and the ID of the deceased, identify the body as coal worker Liang Zhijun. Further investigations lead Zhang, his partner Wang, and two more policemen to a parlor run by two brothers. The potential interview goes horribly wrong, with one of the suspects killing the two policemen and injuring Zhang, before he kills them both. After getting out of the hospital,...
- 11/5/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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