Is it creepy or therapeutic for a man to marry a near carbon copy of his beloved wife a few months after her death? We never really find out in Paris-born, Shanghai-based filmmaker Fabien Gaillard’s sophomore feature about strangers in strange lands. Like he did in his first film, 2010's Lao Wai, Gaillard takes a stab at exploring the nuances of international relationships in The Mahjong Box, a more assured if occasionally distancing contemporary drama about reconciling personal loss. In Lao Wai, Gaillard tracked the budding romance between a Frenchman and a Wuhan girl in Shanghai. This time around, he...
- 2/16/2017
- by Elizabeth Kerr
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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