Opens in New York on Friday, March 6, 2020
Film Forum
The Wild Goose Lake is a poetic, contemporary, and thought-provoking crime thrills. Leading actors’ intensive acting with authentic dialects brings us mixed feelings of how miserable the town in Wuhan is and how helpless the residents are to make their ends meet. The dramatic sound effects and fighting scenes have all electrified the film.
THE WILD GOOSE LAKE
Written and Directed by DIAO Yinan (“Black Coal, Thin Ice”)
Starring HU Ge, LIAO Fan (“Black Coal, Thin Ice”; “Ash is Purest White”), GWEI Lun-Mei (“Black Coal, Thin Ice”)
Official selection: 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Competition
Official selection: 2019 New York Film Festival, Main Slate
Official selection: 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, World Contemporary Cinema
DIAO’s noir crime thriller about a gangster on the run will open on March 6th, 2020 at New York’s Film Forum followed by a national roll out.
Set in the nooks and crannies of densely populated Wuhan in central China, the elegantly down-and-dirty THE WILD GOOSE LAKE follows the desperate attempts of small-time mob boss Zhou Zenong (the charismatic Hu Ge) to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop and a dead-or-alive reward is put on his head. Director Diao Yinan proves his action bona fides in a series of stylized set pieces and violent shocks, simultaneously devising a romance between Zhou and a mysterious young woman (Gwei Lun-mei) who’s out to either help or betray him. Diao deftly keeps multiple characters and chronologies spinning, while examining social changes of contemporary China. Chaotic and nocturnal, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE is punctuated by long pursuits and stunningly choreographed gang fights, in a filmic geometry of arresting beauty and originality.
Diao Yinan was born in Xi’an, China, and studied dramatic literature at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. He has directed the features Uniform, Night Train, and Black Coal, Thin Ice. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE is a box office sensation in China, having grossed $23 million in its first week of release.
To view the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E5De82Yo9c