Red Amnesia
aka Chuang ru zhe
First screened in September 2014
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai. Cast: Lu Zhong, Shi Liu, Feng Yuanzheng, Qin Hao, Amanda Qin. Screenplay: Wang Xiaoshuai, Fang Lei, and Li Fei.

Twitter Capsule: Caché-meets-The Whisperers mystery: she did something nasty in the Cultural Revolution and now, it follows. Unsettling.

VOR:   Not the quiet tour-de-force Beijing Bicycle was; you can predict its movements more or less accurately. Still, politically bold and generically unusual for Chinese film, at least as I know it.



Photo © 2014 Dongchun Films Production Co., Ltd.

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


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