by rogerco on Sat 19th Feb 2022 Streamed proj @ home

Vaguely Interesting

Summary

Totally unsympathetic lead character rather mars it

Full review

The depiction of life in small town China post Mao is interesting but the entire film is spent following this useless loser around which is not at all interesting. He just mooches through life.

Somewhat reminiscent of Ken Loach or Mike Leigh's films providing a slice of life with amateur actors and improvised/workshopped dialogue, but without anyone the audience can identify with (even if we don't actually like them) it fails to engage as a narrative.