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‘Girls On Wire’ Review: Vivian Qu’s Genre Hybrid Is A Surprisingly Gritty Study Of Chinese Lives In The Margins – Berlin Film Festival
'Girls On Wire' review: Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid is a surprisingly gritty study of Chinese lives in the margins – Berlin Film Festival
Though it ends with a glimmer of hope on the horizon, Girls on Wire takes a very sober view of life in industrialized China, and all the myriad unfairnesses that exist there. The deliberate invocation of “movie magic” is key here, and Qu’s bleak view of mainstream filmmaking as factory farming isn’t so much a critique of Chinese cinema as a metaphor for the way working-class people’s dreams are fed to them by the demands of consumerist society and don’t reflect their actual needs. Title: Girls On Wire (Xiang fei de nv hai) Festival: Berlin (Competition) Director-screenwriter: Vivian Qu Cast: Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao, Zhou You, Peng Jing Sales agent: Films Boutique Running time: 1 hr 45 mins
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