Opening on March 6 at New York City’s Film Forum
Written and Directed by Yinan (Black Coal, Thin Ice) and Starring HU Ge, LIAO Fan (Black Coal, Thin Ice; Ash is Purest White) and GWEI Lun-Mei (Black Coal, Thin Ice)
Official selection: 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Competition
Official selection: 2019 New York Film Festival, Main Slate
Official selection: 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,
World Contemporary Cinema“The movie exhilarates”
— Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
“A spellbinding pulp noir”
— David Fear, Rolling Stone
“Pulls no punches”
— Ryan Dyer, Rue Morgue
“Downright Hitchcockian”
— A.A. Dowd, AV Club
“Darkly entertaining…there’s nothing else like it at the movies right now”
— Chris Barsanti, PopMatters
“Diao Yinan delivers a definitive Chinese crime noir, in which the ravishing style and inventive staging form the substance. Staged and executed with…slick, dark dazzle.
— Jessica Kiang, Variety
Have you ever imagined what John Wick would be like if it was set not in an imaginary version of New York, but instead a remote city in China’s industrial hinterland? Wonder no more, because here comes Diao Yinan’s ultrastylish neo-noir The Wild Goose Lake, which offers some of the most thrillingly original fight scenes you’ll see onscreen this year“
— Nate Jones, Vulture.com
SYNOPSIS
Chinese director Diao Yinan’s much anticipated follow-up to his breakthrough film Black Coal, Thin Ice THE WILD GOOSE LAKE,is a noir crime thriller about a gangster on the run, wet in the nooks and crannies of densely populated Wuhan in central China. the elegantly down-and-dirty film follows the desperate attempts of small-time mob boss Zhou Zenong (the charismatic Hu Ge) to stay alive after he mistakenly kills a cop and a dead-or-alive reward is put on his head. Director Diao Yinan proves his action bona fides in a series of stylized set pieces and violent shocks, simultaneously devising a romance between Zhou and a mysterious young woman (Gwei Lun-mei) who’s out to either help or betray him. Diao deftly keeps multiple characters and chronologies spinning, while examining social changes of contemporary China. Chaotic and nocturnal, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE is punctuated by long pursuits and stunningly choreographed gang fights, in a filmic geometry of arresting beauty and originality.
Diao Yinan was born in Xi’an, China, and studied dramatic literature at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. He has directed the features
Uniform, Night Train, and Black Coal, Thin Ice. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE
was a box office sensation in China, having grossed $23 million in its first week of release.
UPCOMING THEATRICAL MARKETS
3/6: PREMIERE: Film Forum — New York 3/13: Laemmle Monica & Glendale — Los Angeles
3/13: Alamo Drafthouse Downtown — Los Angeles
3/20-22: SIFF Film Center – Seattle WA
3/20: Cinema 21 – Portland OR
3/20: Broadway Theater – Eugene OR
3/20: Plaza Theater – Atlanta GA
3/20: Center for Contemporary Arts – Santa Fe NM
3/20: Riviera Theater – Santa Barbara CA
3/20-22: SIFF Film Center – Seattle WA
3/22: Alamo Drafthouse Littleton – Denver CO
3/27: The Frida – Santa Ana CA
3/27: The Gray Duck Theater – Rochester MN
4/3: Zeitgeist Theater – New Orleans LA
4/3: Landmark Ritz 5 – Philadelphia PA
4/3: Landmark Kendall Square – Boston MA
4/3-5: Detroit Inst of Art – MI
4/10: Cinemapolis – Ithaca NY
4/10: Gene Siskel Film Center – Chicago IL
4/10:Rodeo Cinema – Oklahoma City OK
410: Landmark Shattuck – Berkeley CA
4/17: Landmark Mayan – Denver CO
4/17: Living Room – Boca Raton FL
4/17: Row House Theater – Pittsburgh PA
THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (2019)
Directed by: Diao Yinan
Written by: Diao Yinan
Produced by: Sheng Yang
Co-Produced by: Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Director of Photography: Jinsong Dong
Sound by: Zhang Yang
Editing by: Matthieu Laclau
Genre: Thriller/Drama
RT: 110 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85: 1
Sound: 5.1
Language: Chinese with English Subtitles
