A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.
Acting
Fan Bingbing carries the whole wreck with devastating restraint.
Direction
Li Yu shoots Beijing's grime with unflinching documentary intimacy.
Director
Li Yu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Li Yu shot this without full government approval, leading to a censored theatrical release and her unofficial blacklisting from Chinese cinema for years.
The massage parlor sequences were filmed in actual underground Beijing establishments; some 'extras' were real workers unaware they were in a movie.
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