| Details | Watch the Trailer Based on Yu Hua’s popular novella Mistakes by the River, Wei Shujun’s “inventive riff on Asian-noir” (Jessica Kiang, Variety) has drawn comparisons to such illustrious company as Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder, and David Fincher’s Zodiac. Soaked in moody noir atmospherics thanks to Chengma’s ingenious low-light cinematography, it tells the story of Ma Zhe (Yilong Zhu), a detective sent to a small town in 1990s China to investigate a gruesome murder. An obvious suspect is quickly jailed for the crime, but when a mysterious answering machine recording emerges, Ma becomes convinced that there’s more to the story and pursues his hunch to with an obsession bordering on madness. (Dir.: Wei Shujun, China, 2023, 101 min. DCP, Mandarin with English subtitles)
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Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first–come, first served basis for patrons without tickets.
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