Mystery (2012)
- Original title
- 浮城谜事
- Directed by
- Lou Ye
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- People's Republic of China, France
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 53 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 married man's double life unravels after a hit-and-run accident. The incident pulls his wife and his mistress into a dangerous confrontation.
tensemelancholicbleakvisually lushemotionally intenseunsettlingatmosphericmorally ambiguous
What happens
Mystery (浮城謎事) is a 2012 Chinese drama film directed by Lou Ye. This is Lou Ye's seventh film but only the second (with Purple Butterfly in 2003) to have been released in his own country. The story is based on a series of posts under the title of "This Is How I Punish A Cheating Man And His Mistress" (《看我如何收拾贱男与小三》), which has over one million hits. "Mystery is beautiful and violent, both in the emotions it deals with and the scenes that display them. It echoes some of contemporary China's own problems, such as corruption, money, ambiguity and morality," says Brice Pedroletti in his review on The Guardian. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. At the 7th Asian Film Awards, the film won the Asian Film Award for Best Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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