Mad Bills to Pay: Qu Stages Miserabilist Soap Opera
If Girls on Wire settles on anything clear to say it’s quite simply that crime doesn’t pay, at least judging from the seemingly endless intergenerational ripple effects inspired by criminal activity allowed to fester through an aimless sense of gratitude. It’s quite a significant disappointment coming from Vivian Qu, whose exceptional sophomore film Angels Wear White and simmering 2013 debut Trap Street cemented her as one of the most exciting contemporary Chinese directors of the past decade (and that’s not to mention her producer credits, which include Diao Yi’nan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, 2014).… Read the rest
