Saturday, November 1, 2014
4:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Hawaii International Film Festival presented by Halekulani
Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18
West Coast Premiere
Hawaii,
CLOSING FILM
West Coast Premiere 2014
Director/Screenwriter: Diao Yinan
Producer: Vivian Qu, Wan Juan
Cinematographer: Dong Jinsong
Production Designer: Liu Qiang
Editor: Yang Hongyu
Sound: Zhang Yang
Composer: Wen Zi
Cast: Liao Fan, Gwei Lun-mei, Wang Xuebing, Wang Jingchen, Yu Ailei, Ni Jingyang
DCP, color, in Mandarin w/ English s/t, 106 min.
Five years after a botched arrest for a grisly murder, an ex-cop on the skids stumbles back onto his old case. This time fresh murders lead him to a young widow behind the counter at a dry-cleaner’s. In a suspenseful third feature that garnered him the Golden Bear at the recent Berlinale, director Diao Yinan casts noir compulsion and doom, Fargo-like, in the wintry coal-belt of northern China. Here, danger slow-burns beneath the icy frost, and whodunit becomes a phenomenological question as perplexing as a show of fireworks in bright daylight. – Cheng-Sim Lim
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Sponsor(s): zConfucius Institute, Film and Television Archive, Part of the 2014 China Onscreen Biennial (银幕中国双年展) presented in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Hawaii. For more information, including the full program schedule, film descriptions, and ticket and venue information, please visit the website.