Saturday Fiction
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2h 8m
Directed by Lou Ye | 126 mins | 2019
"Suzhou River" (2000) director Lou Ye sets this Hitchcockian espionage thriller in December of 1941, on the cusp of the Pearl Harbor attack. At its center, the inimitable Gong Li as a Chinese movie star who returns to Japanese-occupied Shanghai in order to appear in a play, the titular "Saturday Fiction", directed by a former lover—but, in this city rife with double agents, she too is operating according to murky ulterior motives.
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