Something is causing the ground to shift underneath a new Chinese suburb in writer-director Qiu Sheng’s intriguing, adept debut feature. High-rise towers are listing to the side, and residents are being evacuated. As Suburban Birds begins, a team of engineers is on-site to investigate the cause—ideally quickly, without disrupting the planned subway tunneling, so that this little part of China’s development boom can proceed. Make way for tomorrow! It’s left to Qiu to survey the restless earth around the foundations of the future, via a subtle structural gambit that marks his voice as one worth listening to.
As the four-man crew take measurements, knock off early, and indulge in the occasional after-work binge-drinking, low man on the totem pole Xiahao’s (Mason Lee) lack of motivation and affect in comparison to his workmates marks him out as the protagonist according to the dictates of arthouse logic.
As the four-man crew take measurements, knock off early, and indulge in the occasional after-work binge-drinking, low man on the totem pole Xiahao’s (Mason Lee) lack of motivation and affect in comparison to his workmates marks him out as the protagonist according to the dictates of arthouse logic.
- 3/26/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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