Keep Cool (1997)
- Original title
- 有话好好说
- Directed by
- Zhang Yimou
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 61 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A lovesick bookseller in 1990s Beijing gets caught up in a series of escalating conflicts after a chance encounter. He tries to sort out a messy situation with a hot-headed taxi driver and a neurotic friend.
chaoticfreneticabsurdstreet-levelenergeticsarcasticgrittyoffbeat
What happens
Keep Cool (simplified Chinese: 有话好好说; traditional Chinese: 有話好好說; pinyin: Yǒu Huà Hǎo Hǎo Shuō; lit. 'If you have something to say', 'say it nicely') is a 1997 Chinese black comedy film directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from the novel Evening Papers News by Shu Ping. The film, which is about a bookseller in love in 1990s Beijing, marked a move away from Zhang's earlier period pictures to a more realistic cinéma vérité-like era in his career that also saw him make Happy Times (2000) and Not One Less (1999). Keep Cool also marked only the third time Zhang placed his film in the modern era and the first time Zhang did not work with actress Gong Li. The film was produced by the Guangxi Film Studio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.