In the Electric Mist
2009
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5 days ago · A weary police captain (Zhu Yilong) battles insomnia and a killer on the loose in Wei Shujun’s gritty noir drama. Here’s our Only The River Flows review. In 1995 China, the semi-rural Jiangdong province isn’t having the best winter. The old cinema is closing (“nobody goes nowadays”, apparently); the rain alternates between torrential ...
5 days ago · Filmed on scratchy 16mm and with cinematographer Chengma Zhiyuan’s terrific lighting throwing shadows over its shady ensemble, it’s a great-looking noir too. The pre-cellphone, pre-internet ...
23 hours ago · Beijing-based director Wei Shujun — behind Ripples of Life and Striding Into the Wind — delivers an unconventional and stylish noir with Only the River Flows.The film follows police detective Ma Zhe, portrayed by Yilong Zhu, as he investigates a serial killer in a rural Chinese town during the 90s.
5 days ago · Released: 16 August 2024 Director: Wei Shujun Starring: Zhu Yilong, Chloe Maayan, Chou Yu, Kang Chunlei, Tianlai Hou Review By: Avanish Chandrasekaran Wei Shujun is an emerging, exciting new voice among China’s latest filmmaking generation in the past couple of years. Having proved his mettle as an auteur thanks to films like Striding Into The Wind (2020) and […]
5 days ago · Only the River Flows is an enigmatic mystery in which to immerse yourself. Take a deep breath first. Captain Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong) leads the search for answers. Image: Lian Ray Pictures. The omnipresence of the police procedural in western novels, TV and film has turned the genre into comfort food.
3 days ago · Photograph: Alamy. Shot on silty 16mm film to give a look that feels dredged from the churning waters that are so central to the story, this striking Chinese neo-noir goes all out on murky atmosphere. The setting is rural southern China in the 1990s, and this slow-burning policier captures the texture of a world poised on the brink of change.
5 days ago · Weather. Film review: Only the River Flows is stained deepest noir with rain and chain-smoking detectives. The story peels back the background culture as the criminal probe proceeds. Only the ...
