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Beijing Bicycle
Directed by
Wang Xiaoshuai
2001
1h 53m
PG-13
Drama
7.2
62%
73%
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A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
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Cast of Beijing Bicycle
Cui Lin
Guo Liangui
Li Bin
Jian
Zhou Xun
Qin
Gao Yuanyuan
Xiao
Yiwei Zhao
Father
Yan Pang
Mother
Fangfei Zhou
Rongrong
Jian Xie
Manager
Yuhong Ma
Accountant
Liu Guancheng
Mantis
Li Mengnan
Qiu Sheng
Shuang Li
Da Huan
Beijing Bicycle Reviews
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
An artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
This film puts Wang at the forefront of China's Sixth Generation of film makers.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
An uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the Italian masterpiece.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
Well before it's over, Beijing Bicycle begins spinning its wheels.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Too simple for its own good.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
While Wang Xiaoshuai's film doesn't plumb the depths, nor resonate with the kind of profound irony of Vittoria De Sica's 1947 classic, it is nonetheless an affecting, poignant drama.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This Chinese movie suffers a flat tire about halfway through.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jesse Hamlin
This is a moderately engaging tale.
Boston Globe
Chris Fujiwara
[Wang's] reliance on sugarcoated music and his trite use of slow motion show that his heart lies in making undemanding fluff for the world market.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Great tale of two boys' struggle over a bicycle.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
A classic romance always involves a certain formula: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. Beijing Bicycle is a romance, except the love interest is a bicycle and not a girl.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
It tells a compelling story while making a devastating, entirely convincing argument about the corrosive effects of Chinese capitalism on traditional values and human dignity.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
What's most unusual about Beijing Bicycle in terms of recent Chinese history is that any form of class conflict is depicted at all.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Thoughtful and exhilarating.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
At once somber and mysterious, comical and sad. It shows just how lonely a crowded city can be.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
With this masterful, flawless film, [Wang] emerges in the front ranks of China's now numerous, world-renowned filmmakers.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
The tug-of-war at the core of Beijing Bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances, overheated pathos and long, wistful gazes.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Now here's a sadistic bike flick that would have made Vittorio De Sica proud.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Wang mistakes affectless storytelling and character conception for rigor, and as a result huge portions of Beijing Bicycle are dull and repetitive.
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