"Beijing Bicycle" has been described as a Chinese "Bicycle Thieves".
This kind of plot is easy to poach if not always that easy to bring off
but Xiaoshuai Wang manages it beautifully helped by a couple of
wonderfully naturalistic performances from Lin Cui as the young courier
whose bicycle is stolen and from Bin Li as the young thief, as well as
by the superb cinematography of Jie Liu. This time the plot is less
predictable and handled with a touch more humor than you might expect.
It's also a great 'city' film with Wang handling the milieu of a large,
and to Western eyes, a virtually unknown metropolis with all the brio of
a Lumet but also with a freshness of approach and, like Lumet, he
manages to balance the comic and the tragic in equally brilliant
measure. This is a truly terrific film that simply shouldn't be missed.
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
BEIJING BICYCLE ****
"Beijing Bicycle" has been described as a Chinese "Bicycle Thieves".
This kind of plot is easy to poach if not always that easy to bring off
but Xiaoshuai Wang manages it beautifully helped by a couple of
wonderfully naturalistic performances from Lin Cui as the young courier
whose bicycle is stolen and from Bin Li as the young thief, as well as
by the superb cinematography of Jie Liu. This time the plot is less
predictable and handled with a touch more humor than you might expect.
It's also a great 'city' film with Wang handling the milieu of a large,
and to Western eyes, a virtually unknown metropolis with all the brio of
a Lumet but also with a freshness of approach and, like Lumet, he
manages to balance the comic and the tragic in equally brilliant
measure. This is a truly terrific film that simply shouldn't be missed.
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