1996 · drama · crime · comedy
Mahjong (1996)
Directed by Edward Yang2h 1m1996
Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.
Our read: Mahjong (1996) (1996) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · crime · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- signature
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