Sun Valley
Time Out says
He Ping invented the 'Chinese Western' in The Swordsman in Double-Flag Town, and the Freudian psycho-drama with Chinese characteristics in Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker. This sets out to combine the two in the self-consciously mythic tale of a widow, her lover and the taciturn hitman who turns up to kill the lover. If the result is less than terrific, it's because He has to strain so hard to avoid repeating himself; only the extraordinary PoV shots in which all colours except red are bleached to monochrome (expressing the killer's pathological fear of blood) are genuine visual and dramatic coups. But the actors are fine and the Gansu locations help, anchoring the psycho-sexual problems in credible physical details: scorching days, cold nights, hot baths, encrustations of mud.
Details
Release details
Duration:
100 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
He Ping
Screenwriter:
Zhang Rui
Cast:
Yang Kuei-mei
Zhang Fengyi
Wang Xueqi
Ku Feng
Chan Yuen
Zhang Fengyi
Wang Xueqi
Ku Feng
Chan Yuen