Underplayed Gems

Lost in the Stars (2023)

Lost in the Stars poster
Original title
消失的她
Directed by
Liu Xiang, Cui Rui
Genre
mystery, crime, thriller
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
2h 02m
Rated
PG13
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 105 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A businessman on an anniversary trip with his wife in Southeast Asia reports her missing. A woman claiming to be the wife shows up, but he insists she is not his wife.

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What happens

Lost in the Stars (Chinese: 消失的她; lit. 'She Who Disappeared') is a 2022 Chinese mystery film directed by Cui Rui and Liu Xiang, and starring Zhu Yilong, Ni Ni, Janice Man, and Du Jiang. The film is adapted from Aleksey Korenev's 1990 Soviet comedy film Trap for a Lonely Man and French playwright Robert Thomas' 1960 play Trap for a Lonely Man (Piege Pour un Homme Seul). It tells the story of businessman He Fei and his wife, Li Muzi, who disappears during an anniversary trip to Southeast Asia; the woman who reappears, claiming to be Li Muzi, is not his wife. The film was released theatrically in China on 22 June 2023. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The plot bares resemblance to the 2019 Wang Nuannuan case, where her husband pushed Wang off a cliff in order to inherit her assets and clear gambling debts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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