Trap Street (2013)

Original title

水印街

Directed by

Vivian Qu

Genre

drama film, mystery film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young surveyor who helps install CCTV cameras becomes infatuated with a woman he meets while mapping a street. After she disappears, he uses his skills to track her down, only to find the street has been erased from digital records and camera footage.

suspensefulmelancholiccerebralslow-burnlonelymysteriousunsettlingcontemplative

What happens

Trap Street (Chinese: 水印街; pinyin: Shuiyin jie) is a 2013 Chinese film written and directed by debut Chinese film director Vivian Qu and starring Lu Yulai and He Wenchao. It premiered at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the prestigious Luigi De Laurentiis Award. It subsequently won the Dragons and Tigers Award - Special Mention and second place in the Award itself at the Vancouver International Film Festival in the same year, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Boston Independent Film Festival in early 2014. The film tells the story of a young digital map-making surveyor, working for a digital mapping company, who in his spare time helps install CCTV cameras. He becomes infatuated with a young woman who works at a mysterious building in a street he has recently mapped. After establishing what appears to be a growing friendship, he loses contact with her. Determined to find her by using his computing and electronic skills, he discovers that the street has mysteriously disappeared from the electronic record, and the CCTV images of it are not accessible. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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