A Chinese re-imagining of the 1985 directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, Blood Simple. Transposing the Coen’s mix of...
A Chinese re-imagining of the 1985 directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, Blood Simple. Transposing the Coen’s mix of dark humor and suspense to China, the film is helmed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) - "a black comedy thriller, an exposé of how intense desires can consume humanity, and the irony that life never submits to our calculations".
Wang (Honglei Sun) is a miserable yet cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town. Wang’s wife is having an affair with Li (Xiao Shen-Yang), one of his employees. Not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end - or so he thinks. But the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to more violence…
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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop | Details
- Rating
- M, contains violence
- Runtime
- 95
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- China