Search results
18 hours ago · July 25, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET. Only the River Flows. Directed by Wei Shujun. Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Not Rated. 1h 41m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...
1 day ago · Shujun’s script, co-written with Yu Hua and Kang, eschews any viewer hand-holding, keeping its messages and themes backgrounded; if there is a greater context for the film’s plot, perhaps it ...
10 hours ago · As it is in “Only the River Flows,” a stylish, introspective, eventually frustrating Chinese procedural directed by Wei Shujun. Based on a book by Yu Hua, the film begins with something of a ...
4 days ago · Wei has crafted a noir that rejects the more dramatic trappings of such stories. In Only the River Flows, Wei Shujun’s adaptation of the Yu Hua novella, an old woman (Cao Yang) is murdered on the bank of a Chinese town’s river. There are no taunting notes or occult artifacts left behind in the weeds. The body hasn’t been cut up or ...
3 days ago · Only the River Flows provides a very welcome sign of life. DIRECTOR: Wei Shujun; CAST: Zhu Yilong, Zeng Meihuizi, Hou Tianlai, Tong Linkai, Zeng Qi; DISTRIBUTOR: KimStim; IN THEATERS: July 26; RUNTIME: 1 hr. 41 min. Originally published as part of InRO Weekly — Volume 1, Issue 21. A new film review of Only the River Flows, directed by Wei ...
1 day ago · That backdrop suits this Chinese noir, the third feature from the director Wei Shujun, which, at times, feels like it unfolds in a universe of other films. Tangled, unresolved procedurals like Bong Joon Ho’s “Memories of Murder” and David Fincher’s “Zodiac” loom large. Much of the score, on the other hand, is taken, strangely, from ...
3 days ago · Based on Yu Hua's short novel Mistakes by the River, director Wei Shujun's film is a neo-noir set in provincial, changing Chinese town in Jiangdong in the lower reaches of Yangtze river in 1995.
