Only the River Flows (2023)
- Original title
- 河边的错误
- Directed by
- Wei Shujun
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 114 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 police chief in a small 1990s Chinese riverside town investigates a series of murders. His search for the truth starts to blur the lines between reality and delusion.
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What happens
Only the River Flows (simplified Chinese: 河边的错误; traditional Chinese: 河邊的錯誤; pinyin: Hébiān de cuòwù) is a 2023 Chinese neo-noir crime drama film directed by Wei Shujun, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kang Chunlei based on Yu Hua's short novel Mistakes by the River. The film stars Zhu Yilong as a police chief investigating a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. The film was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It was released theatrically in China on October 21, 2023. As of November 7, the total box office of the film is 301 million RMB, placing it among China's highest-grossing independent films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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