ArnoldLost in Beijing review and trailer
Director Yu Li calls this film a bit of a step into the mainstream, using star actors and China’s capital as a backdrop. But this film is anything but a step into the mainstream. Lost in Beijing is devastating. Aside from one major MacGuffin in the film (not very likely that a woman’s husband was washing windows at the exact moment she is being taken advantage of…) the writing is spectacular. The film is like a knot that turns in on itself repeatedly. The performance from the four stars of the film are great, the cinematography is beautiful and jarring. Lost in Beijing is one of the best films to come out of mainland China in years. It’s a disturbing portrait of the changing socio-economic landscape in Beijing. The flood of new money coming in has made a class of “nouveau riche” that are simultaneously changing the moral landscape of the city. The film meditates on the clash of the influx of émigrés to the city and their struggle to eek out a living against the rising nouveau riche. Part of the reason it functions so well is that the socio-economic politics of the film, the really frightening analysis of humanity and the monetary system that guides the morals of a society, could be set anywhere. It is only in Beijing because that’s where the flood of money is happening for this film, this could be set anywhere in the world and still have the exact same analysis of the human condition. It’s dark, disturbing, poignant and generally pretty off-putting, but brilliant.
To read the full review go [LINK=http://film-forward.com/lostinbe.html]here[LINK]
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