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Only the River Flows
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Chief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, but clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals.
1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman’s body is found by the river. Ma Zhe, Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that quickly leads to an arrest. As his superiors are keen to communicate their success, several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behaviour of his fellow citizens. With a singular and acerbic vision, Wei Shujun plays with the detective genre, adapting Yu Hua’s short novel Mistakes By The River (author of To Live adapted by Zhang Yimou), for his third feature film after Striding Into The Wind (Cannes Label 2020) and Ripples Of Life (Directors’ Fortnight 2021).
Directed by
Shujun Wei
Written by
Chunlei Kang, Shujun Wei
Edited by
Matthieu Laclau
Cinematography
Chengma Zhiyuan
Sound by
Duu-Chih Tu, Tse Kang Tu
Starring
Yilong Zhu, Chloe Maayan, Tianlai Hou, Tong Lin Kai
Original title
He bian de cuo wu
English title
Only the River Flows
Year
2023
Country
China
Language
CN
Subtitles
CZ
Running time
101 min
Genre
Drama, Crime, Mystery
Age rating
15+
Release date
25. 7. 2024

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Screen Daily
“Engrossing noir”
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Frieze
“As pleasing on the eye as it is rich with symbolism”
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