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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Directed by
Zhang Yimou
R
2009
1h 35m
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5.6
34%
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The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
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Cast of A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Sun Honglei
Zhang
Xiao Shenyang
Li
Yan Ni
Wang's Wife
Ni Dahong
Wang
Cheng Ye
Zhao
Mao Mao
Chen
Julien Gaudfroy
Persian Merchant
Zhao Benshan
Patrol Team Commander
Wei Na
Persian Woman
Wang Sisi
Female Prisoner
Li Wenting
Female Prisoner
Chen Ran
Male Prisoner
Huang Shuo
Male Prisoner
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
Heaven knows what inspired Zhang to undertake this nutty project, but the results are, at the least, amusing.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
A group of shrill, idiotic characters mugging for the camera in front of stunning desert landscapes.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
An uneasy mix of Coen-style laughs (particularly evident in the big comic close-ups) and Zhang's majestic imagery (in one shot the couple's divorce papers shatter into a burst of confetti).
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
What sounds as though it ought to be delicious winds up, instead, a soggy noodle.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
It takes real chutzpah to challenge the Coen brothers when it comes to stylization in movies, but Chinese director Zhang Yimou has done just that.
The Atlantic
Christopher Orr
In Blood Simple, the cascading confusions lead to moral solitude and death; in Noodle Shop, the foremost misunderstanding involves a character who mistakes the phrase 'must die' for 'moose die.'
Dallas Morning News
David Hines
The movie soon devolves into nothing more than a fairly close-to-the-vest adaptation.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Don't attempt to remake a Coen brothers movie, especially if you plan to turn the thing into a bizarre concoction of melodrama and slapstick comedy.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
For the Coens, the parable of lust and greed suggested that nothing was certain but death and the battle of the sexes. For Yimou, it's a ghost story of sexual lust and money lust.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Zhang's version dries out the original's sultriness, trades humid night for arid day, and strains for slapstick.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop is 95 minutes of not right.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There are lots of vertiginous high angles and sweeping wide-screen vistas, but they never congeal into a compelling atmosphere.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Zhang needs to reconnect with the sensibility -- fierce, principled, humanistic -- that made him one of China's finest film artists.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop is an easy film to watch and admire, but a hard one to connect with, let alone love.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Whereas the Coens worked with a shoestring budget and emphasized a deadpan sense of humor, Zhang pours on expensive special effects whenever the opportunity for large-scale slapstick presents itself.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
The film is all over the place, really, until the plot kicks in, at which point Zhang hits the dimmer and plunges everyone into darkness, even a pair of characters seemingly on hand purely for comic relief.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Zhang uncovers the primal, mythic intensity of the story and also changes the tone of its essential nihilism.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Lacks the Coen brothers' precision, their diabolical game-board cleverness. It's a remake in shaggy outline only.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Those with a higher tolerance for bumptious jestering -- from a yipping and mincing Xiao, or Cheng Ye as a bucktoothed jelly-belly -- may, however, cry Masterpiece.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
When did Zhang Yimou start acting like Jean-Pierre Jeunet?
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