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'Someone to Talk to': Film Review | Busan 2016

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Director Liu Yulin dissects how we relate to each other — or not — in this observational drama.
The internet is blessedly free of blame for our universal inability to communicate with one another meaningfully in debuting Beijing filmmaker Liu Yulin’s Someone to Talk to, a fleetingly affecting examination of loneliness, ambition, regret and disappointment that lays the the blame for the state we’re in at our own feet. Though coming out of the gate strong, the film runs out of steam (and narrative) before finally chugging to its conclusion. Liu has a nice collection of recognizable characters to play with, and the Tisch-educated director has a good eye for making the banal seem earth-shattering. She's also a much-needed female voice for the "disheartened with life" sub-genre increasingly coming out of China.

Based on co-screenwriter Liu Zhenyun’s Mao Dun Prize-winning One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, the director’s grasp outstrips her reach, and the film goes out with a proverbial whimper rather than a bang. Nonetheless, Someone to Talk to’s production polish and resonant subject matter should earn it a place on the festival circuit following its world premiere in the New Currents section at BIFF, and limited release in key urban markets isn’t outside the realm of possibility. The Hong Kong-China co-production’s prospects at home are a wild card, however, as audiences there prefer their hit films noisy, funny, epic or all three.

We begin with Aiguo (Mao Hai) and Lina (Li Qian) in Yanjin (in Henan) enthusiastically filling out their application for a marriage license. They’re rudely interrupted halfway through by a couple so sour they curdle the air around them. Those two are applying for a divorce, and needless to say it’s a portent of things to come for Aiguo and Lina. A decade later, the photo of the happy occasion snapped by Aiguo’s sister Aixiang (Liu Pei) is being taped back together by their daughter Baihui (Li Nuonuo). Aiguo is now working as a cobbler, having left the military behind, and Lina toils at an anonymous factory. Their marriage also has soured.

It’s then that things get sudsy. Lina is having an affair with the suave Jiang (Yu Entai), who is married to Xinting (Qi Xi), a local baker. Not to be outdone, Aixiang, a flatbread vendor, considers a marriage of comfort to kind, middle-aged divorcee Jiefeng (Fan Wei). All of Aiguo’s friends are recommending he simply divorce Lina and get on with his life, but after the adulterers run off a second time, he fakes a search for them, and on his travels runs into former schoolmate Chuhong (Sun Qian), who helps him see the light.

Despite the sheer volume of emotional baggage and crisscrossing plot, Someone to Talk to stays on point in its message that we all need to communicate more, and better (ironically, Aiguo and Lina really connect again after the marriage collapses). Though there’s just too much of everything (a nice tight 90 minutes would suit the material), Liu and Liu never let the main characters fall into archetype and easy victim and villain roles. Lina is subjected to a fair amount of slut shaming, but Li never makes her less than understandable; she's just a young woman who craves emotional fulfillment. Aiguo is petty and vindictive, but he’s also gutted at losing his wife. Aixiang seems to be taking advantage of a decent guy (Jiefeng is by far the most appealing person), but she’s honest about her motivations; about how at 39 she’s getting older and “wants someone to talk to.”

The uniformly strong performances are all delivered in hushed tones, as if that lends weight to the ideas. More than anything it adds to the occasionally somnolent, often aimlessly meandering aesthetic, dragged further down in the last act by an enlightenment via a critically ill child cliche. Young Li was doing a fine job of putting her father in his place without a sudden bout of encephalitis. Regardless of a few missteps, Liu’s first effort is an assured examination of the world right now, and proves she’s one to watch.

Venue: Busan International Film Festival (New Currents)
Production company: Old Western Village Pictures
Cast: Mao Hai, Li Qian, Liu Pei, Fan Wei, Li Nuonuo, Qi Xi, Yu Entai, Zhang Jie, Sun Qian
Director: Liu Yulin
Screenwriter: Liu Zhenyun, based on the book One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand by Liu Zhenyun
Producers: Yang Guoping, Wang Bing, David Lin, Cai Xiao, Yang Dan, Gu, Cheng Di, Gu Yibing
Executive producer: Bill Kong
Director of photography: Wu Di
Production designer: Zhang Jietao
Costume designer: Zhang Ke
Editor: Zhong Yijuan
Music: Gong Pengpeng
World sales: Edko Films

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Not rated, 107 minutes

‘Comeback’: Film Review | Rio 2016

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Hollywood ‘Comeback’: Film Review | Rio 2016 And News:

Erico Rasso’s debut is a sly comedy about an aging hitman who comes out of retirement.
Amador, Portrait of a Senile Killer would make a good alternative title for Comeback, a wry, modest and fresh retread of the hitman-leaves-retirement genre. A dark, deceptively gentle comedy that’s far more knowing than at first it seems, and which cannily features barely the sound of a gunshot until its closing moments, Erico Rassi’s feature debut successfully creates a dark little world of its own in which the viewer is happy to spend time, especially when its main inhabitant is the ever watchable Nelson Xavier, a veteran of some of Brazilian’s keystone titles, playing a parodic variation on Clint Eastwood.

The film is set in some godforsaken rural town in the Brazil where apparently such a thing as the police has never existed and where there are no women at all. We first see Amador (Xavier) in a bar dozing under his trademark fedora. Amador is cultivating a cool killer image because that’s exactly what he was -- a hitman responsible for many murders, recorded in a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings. On the advice of local businessman Uncle (Ge Martu), Amador -- aided by the nephew (Marcos de Andrade) of his former hitman crony Davi (Everaldo Pontes) -- is half-heartedly and humiliatingly trying to get into selling slot machines to bars, or rather one slot machine, which he can’t seem to get rid of. Now he regrets that he can no longer go on a killing spree like he used to; the fact that he actually has no reason to kill anyone (and a gun that no longer works properly) is not seen as an obstacle to Amador’s ambitions.

When a couple of strangers roll up with the idea of making a movie about him, Amador’s vanity is provoked. “I hope you’re not planning a comeback,” Davi tells Amador: the title is the only word which comically all the characters say in English, and we launch into the rather-too-long pursuit of some rifles for the shoot. Slowly, Amador warms to the idea of a comeback, and when it comes it is strangely bleak, its gunshots stripped of all motivation and meaning. No longer amusing, the film’s final minutes suddenly look like a disturbing reprimand for our need for bullets and bodies in movies, whatever the moral toll.

Pacing is slow and careful as befits a film featuring so many third-agers and set in a broken-down old western town, but rarely is it dull. Populated by old, white-bearded, twinkle-eyed gents, it gets a great deal of comic mileage from the contrast between their benign appearance and their malevolent mindset, capable of normalizing such brutality. Amador is a superb creation by Xavier, his purse-lipped impassivity concealing a solitude and a need for recognition that comes increasingly to the fore and which warms us to him. It’s quite a clever trick to have a sympathetic character shot dead and for the viewer not to mind especially about the victim whilst moreover retaining sympathy for the killer, but that pretty much defines how Comeback does its work.

The simple, plucked guitar score, the repeated use of slow zooms and shots of deserted, sandy streets are three of the techniques that Rassi uses to suggested that Comeback is really a Western with a twist.

Production company: Rio Bravo Filmes
Cast: Nelson Xavier, Marcos De Andrade, Ge Martu, Everaldo Pontes
Director, screenwriter: Erico Rassi
Producer: Cris Miotto
Director of photography: Andre Carvalheira
Editor: Leopoldo Joe Nakata
Composer: Casa da Sogra
Sales: Rio Bravo Filmes
Venue: Rio de Janeiro Film Festival (Official Section)


No rating, 89 minutes