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‘Girl on Edge’ Review: A Mother and Daughter Hit Thin Ice in Zhou Jinghao’s Alluring but Unsatisfactory Skating Drama
'Girl on Edge,' a Chinese figure-skating drama at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight section, looks sharp but turns into a series of flashbacks.
A young woman is shown skating in a dimly lit ring, finishing her routine and stopping right in front of the camera. The titular girl is Jiang Ning (Zhang Zifeng) a fiercely competitive skater who’s been going through a demoralizing period in her training. The blue hued skating rinks and dance clubs Jiang and Zhang inhabit look beguilingly sinister, serving as both dreamscape and nightmarish reality.
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