Beautifully directed, faultlessly performed, Wang Chao’s third feature has a generosity of spirit and a general sense of melancholy that combine to offer an emotionally satisfying experience and provide a piercing insight into contemporary China.
A country schoolteacher comes to the city in search of his missing son. He is helped by a kindly policeman and by his daughter, who struggles to keep from him the sordid reality of her job as a ‘comfort girl’ in a trendy karaoke bar. But her boss and lover, the club-owner, is well known to the cops.
Winner of Un Certain Regard for Best Film Cannes Film Festival 2006
Dir. Wang Chao - 2006 - China/France - 86 mins - Cert 15 - Celluloid Dreams
