Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Sam Voutas, the film was inspired by his experience of growing up in Beijing in the 1980s and 1990s and the bootleg film industry that blossomed around that period.
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Big Wong and Little Wong are an inseparable father-son duo, who travel around China projecting Hollywood movies for villagers, with the father acting as the projectionist and the son as the promoter. Both of them seem to be quite good at their job, with the kid appearing as a top salesman, and the two making enough money to be happy. However, one fateful night, Little Wong's mother, Lei Lin, appears in the screening and demands Bong Wong starts paying spousal support, while the projection machine catches fire and is completely ruined. When he realizes that taking a loan is impossible, Big Won decides to...
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Big Wong and Little Wong are an inseparable father-son duo, who travel around China projecting Hollywood movies for villagers, with the father acting as the projectionist and the son as the promoter. Both of them seem to be quite good at their job, with the kid appearing as a top salesman, and the two making enough money to be happy. However, one fateful night, Little Wong's mother, Lei Lin, appears in the screening and demands Bong Wong starts paying spousal support, while the projection machine catches fire and is completely ruined. When he realizes that taking a loan is impossible, Big Won decides to...
- 9/3/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Another classy Chinese action thriller whose dazzling style seems to take place in a deliberate narrative void, Cliff Walkers (previously titled Impasse) marks leading Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s first foray into the espionage genre. Following on the heels of his censorship-plagued One Second, which was abruptly withdrawn from the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and only came out in China last November, the new film would seem to the naked eye to have nothing for the censors to object to; in fact, it is dedicated to “the heroes of the Revolution.” What foreign audiences will take away is not the negligible storyline but a visually entrancing parade of attractive actors in a pleasingly fluid spy-counterspy dance.
Though bound to make most of its millions domestically, aided by its well-known cast, Cliff Walkers is being released day-and-date in China and the U.S. on April 30. Having one big English-language co-production under his belt — the Matt Damon-starring,...
Though bound to make most of its millions domestically, aided by its well-known cast, Cliff Walkers is being released day-and-date in China and the U.S. on April 30. Having one big English-language co-production under his belt — the Matt Damon-starring,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Review by Peter Belsito
Big Wong and Little Wong are a close knit father-son duo. Together, they travel around as a mobile cinema projecting Hollywood movies for local villagers.
When Big Wong’s ex-wife demands he start paying spousal support, he realizes he may lose custody of his son. In order to raise enough money to stay together, Big Wong takes up a job as a janitor in an old Beijing movie theater.
When Big Wong happens upon an old DVD recorder in a junk store, he comes up with a business plan that he hopes will make him enough money to maintain custody of Little Wong: creating and selling bootleg DVDs.
Together, they secretly run their new business — which they name King of Peking — out of the basement of the movie theater. As business booms, Little Wong starts to question the moral and ethical implications of their scheme and...
Big Wong and Little Wong are a close knit father-son duo. Together, they travel around as a mobile cinema projecting Hollywood movies for local villagers.
When Big Wong’s ex-wife demands he start paying spousal support, he realizes he may lose custody of his son. In order to raise enough money to stay together, Big Wong takes up a job as a janitor in an old Beijing movie theater.
When Big Wong happens upon an old DVD recorder in a junk store, he comes up with a business plan that he hopes will make him enough money to maintain custody of Little Wong: creating and selling bootleg DVDs.
Together, they secretly run their new business — which they name King of Peking — out of the basement of the movie theater. As business booms, Little Wong starts to question the moral and ethical implications of their scheme and...
- 7/30/2018
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
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