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

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)

Trailer

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