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<\/a><\/p>\nA coming-of-age fable mapped onto an unsolved crime story, at once dream-hazed and sharp-edged with suspense, Variety called writer\/director Wang Yichun\u2019s outstanding debut \u201cthe most acute and uncompromisingly grim murder mystery to come out of China in years,\u201d but the film owes as much to The Diary of a Teenage Girl as it does to Diary of a Serial Killer. What\u2019s in the Darkness brilliantly evokes the perils of repressed desire, while equating China\u2019s transition to capitalism with the prurient confusion of puberty. In a semi-rural village of Hebei Province in the early 1990s, someone is raping and killing young women, and carving a cross into their flesh. Following the case with perverse fascination, Jing (Su Xiaotong) struggles to harness her emerging sexuality while her father (Guo Xiao), a low-level cop, futilely tries to convince his incompetent colleagues of the merits of forensic investigation. Presented with the support of China Institute.<\/p>\n