In the City, Relationships Reduced to Transactions
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
Seen from the perspective of a window washer who is one of the main characters in “Lost in Beijing,” the Chinese capital is an endless vista of glassy high-rises. Closer to the ground, in the lyrical documentary montages that frame Li Yu’s modern urban melodrama, the city is a hive of human work and pleasure seeking. There are tango clubs and dive bars, car dealerships and open-air markets, nouveau riches in their Mercedes-Benzes and homeless people stretched out on benches.
There are, at last count, something like 17 million stories in this naked city, and Ms. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3319 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 gennaio 2008
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