Stars: Zhang Yu, Song Jia, Wang Yanhui, Lee Hong-Chi | Written by Xin Yu | Directed by Xiaofeng Li
Outside of a few horror movies, my experience of Chinese movies is seriously lacking and it is something I should definitely try to change in 2023. Back to the Wharf feels like a great choice to start with that.
An escaped convict comes back to his home town after the death of his mother, fifteen years after he left. He soon learns that the past is still haunting him and gets mixed up in the seedy underbelly of the city and the reasons he left.
This slow-burn Chinese drama looks fantastic. Especially when the city and streets have rain showering down on them and the street lights are glowing. Many of the driving scenes featured this and I loved them. Two driving scenes feature crashes that look realistic and manage to shock without blood or gore.
Outside of a few horror movies, my experience of Chinese movies is seriously lacking and it is something I should definitely try to change in 2023. Back to the Wharf feels like a great choice to start with that.
An escaped convict comes back to his home town after the death of his mother, fifteen years after he left. He soon learns that the past is still haunting him and gets mixed up in the seedy underbelly of the city and the reasons he left.
This slow-burn Chinese drama looks fantastic. Especially when the city and streets have rain showering down on them and the street lights are glowing. Many of the driving scenes featured this and I loved them. Two driving scenes feature crashes that look realistic and manage to shock without blood or gore.
- 1/16/2023
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Xue Ming (Eddie Peng) is in jail when we meet him. He’s talking about the boredom of living the same day repeatedly while thinking about how he got there. Deciding it’s better to show than tell, first-time director Shipei Wen sends us back to 1997 to find Xue on the telephone with an angry girlfriend just about fed up with waiting. It’s difficult to tell whether he’s on his way to the cinema late or simply going home when he finally leaves, but the path to his destination is fatefully blocked by a cow. He subsequently turns his air-conditioning repair van down a side street before his beeper takes his attention away from the road and a loud thud smashes his nose against the steering wheel.
It’s a moment we’ll see many more times as Are You Lonesome Tonight? reveals Xue’s choice to leave behind the man he hit.
It’s a moment we’ll see many more times as Are You Lonesome Tonight? reveals Xue’s choice to leave behind the man he hit.
- 7/12/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
By Daniel Eagan
Actors from Sammo Hung to Sylvia Chang have tackled the problems Asian immigrants face in the US and Canada. “Model,” aka “Anchor Baby,” takes a narrowly focused approach to the issue. In her debut feature, director Ran Jing shows how bias and bureaucracy can thwart even those positioned on professional fast tracks.
Lu Shi (Yuxian Shang), a Chinese immigrant in New York City, is at the end of her rope. Trained as an architect, she washes dishes in a restaurant to get by, living on leftovers and fending off eviction notices. When she finally lands an interview with the prestigious Greyson firm, she learns she needs a valid visa to accept the entry-level position.
“Are you an athlete?” asks the discount immigration attorney she consults for help. “Can you get married?” Lu’s options are so limited that when she learns about a “medical parole” visa exception,...
Actors from Sammo Hung to Sylvia Chang have tackled the problems Asian immigrants face in the US and Canada. “Model,” aka “Anchor Baby,” takes a narrowly focused approach to the issue. In her debut feature, director Ran Jing shows how bias and bureaucracy can thwart even those positioned on professional fast tracks.
Lu Shi (Yuxian Shang), a Chinese immigrant in New York City, is at the end of her rope. Trained as an architect, she washes dishes in a restaurant to get by, living on leftovers and fending off eviction notices. When she finally lands an interview with the prestigious Greyson firm, she learns she needs a valid visa to accept the entry-level position.
“Are you an athlete?” asks the discount immigration attorney she consults for help. “Can you get married?” Lu’s options are so limited that when she learns about a “medical parole” visa exception,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Extraordinary Mission Review Extraordinary Mission (2017) Film Review from the 16th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, a movie directed by Alan Mack & Anthony Pun, starring Xuan Huang, Yihong Duan, Feng Zu, Yueting Lang, Jiadong Xing, Yanhui Wang, and Yaoching Wang. A mid-level drug dealer, named Lin Kai (Xuan Huang), was very good at his job. He had to be, because [...]
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- 7/15/2017
- by Sam Joseph
- Film-Book
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