2014 · comedy · drama
Gone with the Bullets
Directed by Jiang Wen2h 20m2014
Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
Our read: Gone with the Bullets (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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- inventive
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