It’s the kind of movie you sit on, but then can’t wait to revisit. Suburban Birds is a rewarding and revelatory first feature from a fresh artistic voice.
Suburban Birds(郊区的鸟)
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China, Taiwan · 2019
1h 58m
Director Qiu Sheng
Starring Mason Lee, Huang Lu, Gong Zihan, Jing Deng
Genre Drama
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When a series of craters open up at the edge of the city, a group of young engineers, including a young man named Hao, is called to investigate. At the same time, a young boy also named Hao sees his friends start disappearing, one by one. Gradually, the connections between the two timelines grow stronger.
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As it stands now though, the acting is good, but the narrative moves like molasses, leaving the audience at a distance.
The film’s refusal to commit to its passing fancies is a highly intentional and eventually tiresome declaration of Qui Sheng’s arthouse bona fides.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The spectacular feature-directing debut of Qiu Sheng.
Viewers, too, may feel at once cast adrift in the film’s amorphous quests, and languidly seduced by its disorder.
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
Enigmatic but oddly entrancing feature debut.
This pleasing, if perplexing, feature debut from Qiu Sheng takes an agile and experimental approach to structure, as two story strands glance off each other, and occasionally intersect.
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