The Crossing (2018)
- Original title
- 过春天
- Directed by
- Bai Xue
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rated
- PG12
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 36 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 shy teenage girl living in Shenzhen and attending school in Hong Kong starts smuggling smartphones to save up for a trip to Japan. The film follows her daily border crossings and the risks she takes.
melancholictenseslow-burnintrospectiveunsettlingbittersweetclaustrophobicvisually cool
What happens
The Crossing (Chinese: 过春天, Guo chun tian; lit. "Passing the Spring") is a Chinese drama film, written and directed by Bai Xue and released in 2018. The film stars Yao Huang as Peipei, a shy teenager in Shenzhen attending school in Hong Kong, who gets drawn into smuggling black market smartphones in the hopes of saving money to fund her dream of travelling to Japan. The film premiered in September 2018 at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, and had its Chinese premiere in October at the Pingyao International Film Festival. It was released mainstream in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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