2001 · drama · chinese
Beijing Bicycle
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai1h 53m2001
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Our read: Beijing Bicycle (2001) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · chinese entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / chinese, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intimate
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