Suburban Birds
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1h 52m
Directed by Qiu Sheng | 112 mins | 2019
A bold and beguiling opening salvo from a singular talent, twining together two distinct narrative strands—one involving land surveyors preparing for the laying of subway tracks investigating a strange phenomenon in the sinking soil of a suburban development, another following pre-adolescents as they rove unsupervised in the streets of the same town.
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