The Rib
First screened in August 2019
Director: Zhang Wei. Cast: Yuan Weijie, Huang Jingyi, Gao Deng, Meng Hao, Shang Ze, Guo Guoshang, Zhang Heming, Li Ye, Chen Yanxin, Zhu Xianyuan, Zhang You, Wang Yajun, Zhang Junxi, Fang Ziyi. Screenplay: Marlo Bernier. Twitter Capsule:
Brave, promising effort, despite lingering clichés and predictable censorship rows. Documentary-style coda lifts the whole.
VOR:③
Trans-themed stories are passing from a global rarity to an abundant genre with its own tropes. Still, even censored, this stands bravely on its merits.
