CHINESE CIRCLES OF ART IN POLAND
XIZAO (SHOWER) (1999)
Recommended. A beautiful, often moving and sometimes cheerful story about moral duties towards your closest relatives, about community and facing irreversible life changes. Funny, endearing characters, e.g. playing with their crickets in a public bath, singing only in the shower or working fastidiously in spite of a disability. Very well acted.
HEI PAO SHI JIAN (THE BLACK CANNON INCIDENT) (1985)
Watchable. A comedy? Far from that: a bureaucratic drama on the one hand, on the other it presents the inefficiency of group decision-making where everyone means well but is tied up in the problem resolution where just one piece is missing. Lost in German-Chinese translation in the depth of communism. I felt like pressing fast forward several times.
BEI JING YU SHANG XI YA TU (FINDING MR. RIGHT) (2013)
Recommended. Sometimes babies are illegal. This love story could be made by the Chinese only. It's a tear-jerking tale full of twists and turns. Beautifully shot. Money compensates for the lack of love but the emptiness of frivolity catches up with Jiajia and she's swayed.
BABY DRIVER
Watchable. "Drive" for a younger generation. Lots of music and driving guaranteed, as well as crime action. Just with a younger protagonist and clearly aimed at a younger audience.
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