When producer Wang Zijian was making the movie "Bel Ami," or “Beautiful Friends,” he knew it had no chance of airing in Chinese theaters. The black-and-white satire, set in a small, snowy Chinese town ...
The rising Chinese auteur’s genre-bending drama, unveiled at the Shanghai Film Festival, uses a virtual reality boxing simulator and vivid nostalgia to explore the enduring bonds between a man and his ...