The film world premiered in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition.
Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has lured Film Movement in North America and The Klockworx in Japan to Ma Xue’s erotic drama White River. The film has also sold to Germany and Austria (Donau Films) and South Korea (Lumix).
It world premiered in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition and follows a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter. Deals in South Korea and Germany are currently in negotiations.
Paris-based sales company Reel Suspects has lured Film Movement in North America and The Klockworx in Japan to Ma Xue’s erotic drama White River. The film has also sold to Germany and Austria (Donau Films) and South Korea (Lumix).
It world premiered in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition and follows a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter. Deals in South Korea and Germany are currently in negotiations.
- 2/20/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Billed as a Korean production, but essentially a Chinese film, considering that Mandarin is the main language here, the cast and crew are Chinese and the story takes place in Yanjiao, Ma Xue’s feature debut tries to reinvigorate the erotic film by implementing a surrealistic, abstract approach.
White River is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Yang Fan lives in Yanjiao, which is separated from Beijing by the White River, during the quarantine. Her routine is pretty simple, cooking, cleaning and trying to abide by the rules. Her husband on the other hand, seems to be entangled in a voyeuristic/masturbatory web, where a classic painting of a woman hanging on the wall of her bedroom plays a crucial role. The two of them have sex, but things become more complicated when Yang Fan also starts sleeping with the enigmatic waiter of a restaurant she frequents, who has the...
White River is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Yang Fan lives in Yanjiao, which is separated from Beijing by the White River, during the quarantine. Her routine is pretty simple, cooking, cleaning and trying to abide by the rules. Her husband on the other hand, seems to be entangled in a voyeuristic/masturbatory web, where a classic painting of a woman hanging on the wall of her bedroom plays a crucial role. The two of them have sex, but things become more complicated when Yang Fan also starts sleeping with the enigmatic waiter of a restaurant she frequents, who has the...
- 1/28/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Ma Xue’s directorial debut world premieres at Rotterdam.
Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has boarded Ma Xue’s erotic drama White River which will world premiere in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition.
White River follows a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter. Reel Suspects will market premiere the title at EFM.
Produced by Yilu Partners and Dreama Pictures, the Mandarin and English language film stars Tian Yuan, Song Ningfeng and Xu Weihao.
Reel Suspects’ founding head...
Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has boarded Ma Xue’s erotic drama White River which will world premiere in Rotterdam’s Bright Future Competition.
White River follows a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter. Reel Suspects will market premiere the title at EFM.
Produced by Yilu Partners and Dreama Pictures, the Mandarin and English language film stars Tian Yuan, Song Ningfeng and Xu Weihao.
Reel Suspects’ founding head...
- 1/19/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Society as a construct manifests itself, among other things, through a set of rules and boundaries, which, if we overstep them, may result in certain punishments. Even though we know these rules, those defined by an outside authority and those we make ourselves, there is a certain urge of breaking them. What sounds like an extract from a work about psychoanalysis is at the foundation of Zhang Qi’s feature debut “Singe Cycle”. What may seem outlandish or strange at first, he explains, is something we know from experience, the urge to look down the abyss and be fascinated about what may be at the ground. While there is something cryptic about his statement, there is no denying this fascination with “the abyss” is one of the themes of “Single Cycle”, an unusual family drama about loneliness, isolation and the desire to break out.
“Single Cycle” is screening at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
Many years ago,...
“Single Cycle” is screening at International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
Many years ago,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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