The prevalent shooting style is monotonous naturalism, as the camera buzzes between contentious actors and trolls after anything on the move. No performance registers quite so much as the capital city itself.
Lost in Beijing(苹果)
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China · 2007
1h 52m
Director Li Yu
Starring Fan Bingbing, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Elaine Jin, Tong Dawei
Genre Drama, Erotic, Romance
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Massage girl Pingguo lives in a cramped apartment with her bad-tempered window cleaner husband Kun. When Pingguo is raped by her boss Lin, the enraged Kun tries to get even first by blackmailing Lin and then sleeping with Lin's wife. The relationships get even more complicated when Pingguo discovers her pregnancy.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
In spite of its raw, explicit moments, the film is at heart a sturdy morality tale about innocence and corruption, wealth and want, sex and power.
Money (and maybe a little bit of love) makes the world go around in Lost in Beijing, an involving, highly accessible portrait of an emotional menage a quatre in the modern-day Chinese capital.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Part soap opera, part sitcom and part relocated French farce.
The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
The script by first-time director Li Yu and producer Fang Li introduces some degree of subtlety in the responses of the four principals, but the plot doesn't really hold up.
The story is contrived. Would you believe a high-rise window-washer just happening to be cleaning the window of the room where, at that very moment, his wife is being raped by her boss? Didn't think so.
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