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In Vivian Qu's third feature, two estranged cousins confront old wounds after they are reunited under dangerous and dramatic circumstances. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic When Fang Di (Wen ...
Though it ends with a glimmer of hope on the horizon, Girls on Wire takes a very sober view of life in industrialized China, and all the myriad unfairnesses that exist there. The first of the two ...
Don’t be fooled. None of the acting in “Girls on Wire” is too good (and in one very funny sequence, when three gangsters roaming Film City get drafted as extras, bad acting gets a big laugh).
Qu’s third film, Berlin premiere “Girls on Wire,” is less obsessed with literal surveillance tape, but the filmmaker’s compulsions toward the power of the screen remain, even if they take ...
Chinese auteur Vivian Qu‘s latest drama “Girls on Wire” received an emotional response at its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, with audiences both laughing and weeping during the ...
Screen can reveal the exclusive first trailer for Vivian Qu’s Chinese drama Girls On Wire, ahead of its premiere in the Berlinale Competition on Monday, February 17. Girls On Wire follows Tian ...
Don't be fooled. None of the acting in "Girls on Wire" is too good (and in one very funny sequence, when three gangsters roaming Film City get drafted as extras, bad acting gets a big laugh).
Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social ...
Qu focuses on the ways young women are undervalued by society. But in Girls on Wire she also observes how the domestic sphere lays the groundwork for that exploitation. Fang Di and Tian Tian’s ...