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The Wild Goose Lake
Directed by
Diao Yi'nan
2019
1h 53m
Crime
,
Drama
,
Thriller
6.7
91%
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A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
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Cast of The Wild Goose Lake
Hu Ge
Zhou Zenong
Gwei Lun-mei
Liu Aiai
Liao Fan
Captain Liu
Wan Qian
Yang Shujun
Qi Dao
Hua Hua
Huang Jue
Yan Ge
Zeng Meihuizi
Ping Ping
Zhang Yicong
Xiao Dongbei
Chen Yongzhong
Client
Li Zhipeng
Chang Zhao
Fu Xiaoxian
Hong Hong
The Wild Goose Lake Reviews
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
In a movie where just about every scene contains some inventive technique or choice, I was most taken with the way Diao boldly abstracts some of his action...
indieWire
David Ehrlich
An invigorating, poetic, and discretely brilliant Chinese noir that adds up to less than the sum of its parts...
RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly
Perhaps the world [Yinan] creates is a bit too scattered for its own good, but you will still want to melt inside its stunning, riotous glow.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
What it all adds up to has some of the unevenness of a nightmare, the belly sweat and oscillating fans of muggy summer heat mixed up with unrealities.
Slant Magazine
Sam C. Mac
The film's masterstroke is that its fugitive antiheroes are framed by an environment that reflects their criminal lives back at them.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
The Wild Goose Lake's most undeniable appeal is in the cinematography of Dong Jingsong.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
The movie exhilarates.
TheWrap
Ben Croll
As with most films of this type, the pleasures arrive less in the originality of the story than in the way the way it's told.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
"The Wild Goose Lake" is unapologetically down-and-dirty B-movie filmmaking, but with its stealth social commentary and matter-of-fact bleakness, you would never call it escapist entertainment.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
"The Wild Goose Lake" may just end up being the last word in Chinese crime noir, because it does not want (or need) to be anything else.
Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
A film that doesn't hit you like a tidal wave as much as it gradually washes over you, leaving in its wake a series of memorable set-pieces and a dense, dark web of violence and fatality.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's an astounding film for its beauty alone.
Hyperallergic
Forrest Cardamenis
Wild Goose is as sly and serious as a classic noir, all flashbacks and fatalism punctuated by cigarette breaks and romps through seedy alleyways, scheming lovers, and a seemingly endless array of double-crossings.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
...a thing of great beauty, a hotel room conflict cast in fuchsia, Dong Jingsong flipping noir's canted window blind lighting on its head and punching up nighttime exteriors with modern neon practicals, playing with his frame like a Lite Brite.
It's Just Movies
Ron Wilkinson
The energy is not there to grab and hold western audiences. Just as well, we will always have Bogie.
Battleship Pretension
Dave Platt
Diao seems deeply aware of the genre tradition he is reworking and gestures toward classic films like those of Bogart or The Third Man and Godard's Breathless, among several others.
PopMatters
Chris Barsanti
A gang war becomes a massive police manhunt through a remote, lawless corner of China in Yi'nan Diao's moody, violent, and gorgeously shot crime story.
The New York Review of Books
Jiwei Xiao
The Wild Goose Lake is not by any means the first Chinese film to be set in Wuhan, but it's rare to hear an entire cast speak the Wuhan dialect and see the city's real locations-especially its lake and "urban villages"-feature in a high-profile film.
The Weekend Warrior
Edward Douglas
Offers further proof that Yinan is a true master of cinematic storytelling.
The Spool
Matt Cipolla
The final nail in the coffin, though, is how grating Diao's fatalism becomes. . . When Goose Lake reaches its end, it's gone from an in-joke to a nicely lit cliché.
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