The Chinese Widow 2017
- Director: Bille August
- Seen by this director: Good-bye Bafana, Les Misérables, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, The House of the Spirits
- Based on the novel: no
- Cast: Liu Yifei, Emile Hirsch, Fangcong Li
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Emile Hirsch – Once upon a Time in Hollywood, The Darkest Hour, Taking Woodstock, Milk, Into the Wild, Third Rock from the Sun
- Why? Possibly interesting
- Seen: 25 March 2022
Fate brings US bomber pilot Jack (Hirsch) together with silk producer
and widow Ying (Yifei). She hides him from the occupying Japanese.
Mostly slow, it has moments of drama in this based-on-a-true-story of a little-known episode in WWII. Gripping on occasion, it was a bit too romantic and predictable to rate higher than
2 ½ * of 5
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