ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? Review: With Wen Shipei’s Feature Debut, You’re In Good Company
Are You Lonesome Tonight? is now available on Digital and VOD from Film Movement Filmmaker Wen Shipei was only one feature project in, having directed the Camera d’Or-nominated crime thriller, Are You Lonesome Tonight? I don’t know what that means for a lot of other critics or folks in film circles but I think it speaks volumes of a director’s ability to tell a story and other prospects looking forward. This one is set in 1990s Guangzhou when Wang Xueming (Eddie Peng), an AC repairman accidentally hits a pedestrian and drives off. Racked with guilt, he slowly encroaches on the goings-on of his widow, Mrs. Liang (Sylvia Chang) in a friendship that slowly materializes between awkward passerby moments coupled with acts by design on Wang’s part. The film takes a stark turn about halfway in when truths begin to unravel about the fateful evening, as dauntless detective Chen (Wang Yanhui) […]