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Angels Wear White
Directed by
Vivian Qu
Not Rated
2017
1h 47m
Drama
7.1
94%
77%
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In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she chooses to keep silence.
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Cast of Angels Wear White
Wen Qi
Mia
Zhou Meijun
Wen
Shi Ke
Attorney Hao
Geng Le
Meng Tao
Liu Weiwei
Wen's mother
Peng Jing
Lily
Wang Yuexin
Jian
Li Mengnan
Lieutenant Wang
Jiang Xinyue
Xin
Bamboo Chen
Motel manager
Vivian Qu
Director / Writer
Sean Chen
Producer
Angels Wear White Ratings & Reviews
Vague Visages
Benedict Seal
The Monroe through-line culminates in a beautiful cinematic image at the film's close, but it's a kind of triumph that doesn't usually grace the movie screen.
StageBuddy.com
Elissa Suh
Angels Wear White unravels with the vague trappings of a crime thriller or mystery, but it is more than a detective story inflected with social justice themes.
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Mattie Lucas
A poetic elegy for lost childhood and societal justice.
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
...a fast-paced, beautifully-shot thriller set in contemporary China, and a film that would be well worth seeing even if the subject matter were not so timely.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Shooting largely with a handheld camera, Qu generates a jittery energy that makes the characters' stress palpable. This feeling escalates as the investigation closes in.
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
The film offers a thoughtful, textured and quietly furious criticism of a sexist Chinese system and society.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Qu fleshes out her characters to expose the societal and familial pressures that tend to limit options for females.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Kathy Fennessy
Remarkable youth performances anchor Vivian Qu's rigorous procedural Angels Wear White, about the adults who exploit children-and the systemic misogyny that protects them.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
In its perceptions and mood, "Angels Wear White" plays like acutely serious female noir.
Counterpunch.org
Louis Proyect
A striking resemblance to "The Florida Project" for its motel locale, its class consciousness and above all its cinematic mastery.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
A tough and unsparing drama that vividly brings to light the kind of narrative too many people have endured over the years.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
As a writer-director, Qu never pulls her punches, while keeping the bad guys and their horrific violence at the edge of the frame.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
This all sounds grim, and it is. But the story grabs you. Ms. Qu shoots the sturdily constructed scenario with unshowy sharpness.
Village Voice
Serena Donadoni
Qu unpacks much that matters in Angels Wear White, including the abuse of power and importance of status and wealth in Chinese society, but her most thoughtful, nuanced observations involve female sexuality.
IndieWire
Michael Nordine
[Qu] handles difficult subject matter with heft and grace in equal measure, giving voice to her film's victims without defining them as mere damsels.
Film Threat
Alan Ng
Vivian Qu's screenplay follows many threads and weaves them together in a hauntingly bitter tapestry. What should be a simple crime to litigate becomes an insidious story of the abuse of power and the re-victimization of victims.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
Angels Wear White becomes a bottomless pit of despair consuming complex characters with nowhere to go [with] a glimmer of hope at the very end.
The Playlist
Andy Crump
If you only pay attention to its tranquil presentation, you might miss the blistering commentary "Angels Wear White" doles out on the built-in sexism of patriarchal cultures.
Variety
Maggie Lee
A brave and hard-hitting drama that provides a social context for violence against women.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Luminously filmed but restrained to a fault, this is the kind of drama that suggests something about the difficult position of women in China, but what exactly the film wants to say is harder to pin down.
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