An Nai, Anlian Yao, Hongshen Jia
Mardar, a motorcycle courier in his mid-twenties, rides all over the city with all kinds of packages for his clients. He knows every inch and is successful thanks to the fact that he never asks questi...( read more
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Directed by: An Nai, Anlian Yao, Hongshen Jia, Hua Zhingkai, Jia Hongsheng, Lou Ye, Nai An, Xun Zhou, Ye Lou, Zhongkai Hua
Release Date: November 10, 2000
DVD Release Date: October 23, 2001
Stats: 100 reviews
Sometimes these "Look at me, I'm indie" projects deliberately frustrate so they don't accidentally get mistaken for commercial fare. Dirty locations, slow pace, downplaying of 'events' should they happen to occur, and dizzying handheld camerawork. Love must be lost, memories mudd...( read more)
LETTERBOX. Historia, como tal, no tiene mucho, pero la naturalidad y la inmediatez del estilo elevan a esta peliculita a un buen nivel. / Story, as such, it has little, but the style is so natural and immediate that they elevate this little movie to a good level.
moving and touching twisted love story. True love lasts forever...
I found myself wanting it to have a happy ending that never came. Dream-like story against a harsh back-drop. The style of delivery of the story worked in places but not in others...so a patchy result, but ove...( read more)
Lou Ye's audacious retelling of "Vertigo," thrust into the decaying heart of a modernizing China, has "stream-of-consciousness" written all over it: the literal title (and Shanghai landmark) pervades each disconnected soul and twisted memory as individuals mull over illusions of ...( read more)
Interesting narration and extensive use of a handheld camera, yet on the whole the film is very odd and a bit slow going
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