With impeccable photography, Zhang Yimou takes us to the snowy cliffs of Manchukuo in the 1930s to narrate an exciting spy plot.
Master Zhang Yimou’s new movie contains the ingredients so that, with a single title, a neophyte understands the virtues and disadvantages of the cinema of the person in charge of titles as essential and antagonistic as ‘Hero’ (2002), ‘Love under the white thorn’ (2010) and ‘Shadow’ (2018). Set in 1930s China, on the snowy cliffs of Manchukuo, the plot introduces us to a panoply of special agents who, after receiving training in the Soviet Union, return to their country just in time to be betrayed and start a war. A very complex counter-espionage story in which nothing is what it seems, including the conclusions that the hard-working viewer must draw about the plot.
On the other hand, the visual magnetism of the filmmaker, and the elegance with which he once again turns two hours of propaganda from the People’s Republic of China into an irresistible collection of beautiful images, makes us surrender to the genius of a filmmaker with unmatched sensitivity when it comes to capturing the stories of his people and turning them, inevitably, into myths.
To enjoy the propaganda mythology of the people’s republic of china
DATA SHEET
Address: zhang yimou Distribution: Zhang Yi, Zhang Hanyu, Amanda Qin, Zhu Yawen, Yu Hewei, Li Naiwen, Yu Ailei Country: China Year: 2021 Release date: 18–11-2022 Gender: thriller Script: Yongxian Quan, Zhang Yimou, Yiran Pan Duration: 120 min.
Synopsis: China. The puppet state of Manchukuo. The 1930s. Four Communist Party special agents return to China after receiving training in the Soviet Union. Together, they embark on a secret mission, but after being turned in by a traitor, the spies will be threatened from the beginning of the mission. On the snowy cliffs of Manchukuo, the spies will be tested to the limit in a deadly game of deception in which they will try to get out alive.
Source: Fotogramas
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