A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
Director:
Yi'nan DiaoWriter:
Yi'nan Diao
From metacritic.com
Credited cast: | |||
Ge Hu | ... | Zenong Zhou | |
Gwei Lun-Mei | ... | Aiai Liu (as Lun-Mei Kwei) | |
Fan Liao | ... | Captain Liu | |
Regina Wan | ... | Shujun Yang (as Wan Qian) | |
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Dao Qi | ... | Hua Hua (as Liang Qi) |
Jue Huang | ... | Yan Ge | |
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Zeng Meihuizi | ||
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Yicong Zhang | ... | Xiao Dongbei |
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Yongzhong Chen | ... | Client |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Chloe Maayan | ... | Ping Ping |
A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
When I saw Wong Kar-Wai's "In the Mood for Love"(2000) with Maggie Cheung - I knew we were watching a complete new cinema that would one day self-realise into epic cinema ~ epic Chinese cinema. And I have now seen that realisation in The Wild Goose Lake. This film is like a cross between Godard's Breathless and de Sica's Bicycle Thieves - and is so satisfying you could watch it upside down. It is possibly the grittiest film I have ever seen, with the urgency and cinematic style of French cinema of the 1960s - where the possibilities are endless and every new film in this genre will be waited for in anticipation.