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Love Smolders and Crime Pays in a Changing China

Back at the turn of the millennium, in the northern Chinese industrial city of Datong, Qiao and Bin are an underworld power couple. Not quite Bonnie and Clyde - too disciplined, too businesslike - but with more than a hint of old Hollywood gangster style. In the provincial dance halls and gambling parlors where Bin holds court in the first chapter of "Ash Is Purest White," he and Qiao carry themselves with glamour and authority. Bin (Liao Fan) gazes through a permanent haze of cigarette smoke, his handsome poker face occasionally betraying a hint of amusement or surprise. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5434 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 13 marzo 2019