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‘The Dating Game’ Rolls To Thessaloniki After Raucous Screenings At True/False: “People Were Laughing From Beginning To End”
'The Dating Game,' a documentary about the struggle for Chinese men to find mates, heads to the Thessaloniki doc fesetival after playing at True/False.
Like Zhou, Li, and Wu, coach Hao comes from a poorer background, an economic status that can negatively impact a man’s odds of attracting a mate in contemporary China where men greatly outnumber women. At the Sundance Film Festival in January, where The Dating Game premiered in World Cinema Documentary Competition, we spoke with Feng for Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. “The majority of the 30 million-surplus of men, most of them at the highest [risk of failing to find a wife] are those who are working class and from the rural area of small towns and Hao is one of them,” the director told us.
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