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

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)

Trailer

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