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A Fool (2015)
Directed by Chen Jianbin
Adventure, Drama, Comedy · 1h 43m
With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.
Cast
Chen Jianbin
Jiang Qinqin
Wang Xuebing
Jin Shijia
Xufeng Wang
Crew
- Director
- Chen Jianbin
Details
- Original title
- 一个勺子
- Release date
- 2015-05-01
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China