Beijing Bicycle
aka Shiqi sui de dan che First screened in August 2014
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai. Cast: Cui Lin, Li Bin, Gao Yuanyuan, Li Shuang, Zhou Xun, Zhao Yiwei, Xie Jian, Li Shuang, Pang Yan, Zhou Fangfei, Liu Lei, Li Mengnan. Screenplay: Peggy Chiao, Hsu Hsiao-ming, Tang Danian, and Wang Xiaoshuai. Twitter Capsule:
Sympathies get complicated in beautifully but unostentatiously shot moral fable. De Sica-ish but not too directly.
VOR:④
Trenchant social allegory replaces have/have-not binary with serial oscillations between two sites of complex social pressure. Even more Bresson than Bicycle Thieves, yet culturally specific.
