How Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Inclusiveness Could Conquer the World His conceptually intriguing, if still visually exhausting follow-up Shadow These often impersonal, politically correct (or muted) spectacles proved so popular he began attracting Hollywood attention, leading him down a misguided path towards the zillion-dollar abomination that is The Great Wall. Around the turn of the millennium he started making a very different type of movie––lavish, CGI-laden blockbusters like Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Curse of the Golden Flower. To Live, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1994 and widely considered his crowning directorial achievement, was such a blistering indictment of the Chinese regime it never received a theatrical release at home. He became a pioneer figure of contemporary Chinese arthouse cinema in the late 1980s / early 1990s, winning top prizes at European film festivals with gritty, hard-hitting dramas that defied ideological guidelines of the time. Zhang Yimou has one of the more fascinating careers of any director. With a young Chinese translator in tow (Tien), who is navigating her own challenging path as a young immigrant, Xu sets out to learn what really happened to his daughter.īusan Review: Zhang Yimou’s One Second is a Reverent Ode to the Magic of the Cinematic Experience
An ex-cop himself, he becomes convinced the local authorities are pursuing the wrong suspect – and that racism is compromising the investigation. The tragedy pierces Xu with grief and guilt that he couldn’t be present to protect his child. Unspoken tells the story of Xu (Zhang), an estranged father separated from his deaf daughter and her new life at an American university, whose murder reunites them in a way neither could have foreseen. Michael Cudlitz and Jake Abel and have signed on to star alongside Zhang Hanyu and Vivienne Tien ( Be Yourself) in Unspoken, a dramatic feature from writer-director Daming Chen that is now in production.
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