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Said to be the first mainstream Chinese film to address the problem of the sexual abuse of underage girls, Angels Wear White takes the form of a mystery drama of two preadolescent school girls abused by a high ranking commissioner.
May 4, 2018 · For anyone watching the new Chinese drama “Angels Wear White,” it will be all but impossible to regard its bleak and harrowing storyline without thinking of the #MeToo movement and all of the attendant scandals involving horrific cases of sexual misconduct that have been brought to light in its wake.
Angels Wear White, Vivian Qu’s dark but clear-sighted fiction feature, explores a rape case similar to that in Hooligan Sparrow. Set in a seaside resort in southern China during the off-season, the film opens with Mia (Wen Qi), a taciturn teenager, gazing up at a huge plaster statue of a woman in white high-heeled sandals.
The only film by a female director selected in competition at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, Angels Wear White follows Mia, a young hotel worker in a small beach resort town who witnesses the sexual assault of two middle-school girls by a high-ranking police official.
May 2, 2018 · Near a sleepy seaside resort in a small Chinese town, a statue of Marilyn Monroe beckons. The piece is a commemoration of Monroe’s iconic pose in Billy Wilder’s 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, struggling to cover up her legs as her white dress blows up around her face. Writer-director Vivian Qu has clearly internalized the under-acknowledged ...
Angels Wear White (Chinese: 嘉年华) is a 2017 Chinese drama film directed by Vivian Qu. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.
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Sep 7, 2017 · Exposing the sordid corruption of police and government officials through their incriminating involvement in a child sexual assault case, “ Angels Wear White ” could give parents of young...
