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:   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.



Photo © 2018 ShenZhen HuaHao Film & Media Co.

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


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