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Chinas

2023 1h 58m Drama List
Tomatometer 4 Reviews 100% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
The tale of two 9-year-old Chinese girls told parallel to one another. The two start school in Madrid: they look alike, but they are very different: Lucia is the daughter of immigrants. She feels Spanish, she wants to fit in, but her parents don't speak Spanish and they work all day long. They don't even want her to celebrate her birthday at Burger King. Xiang is adopted. She attracts attention wherever she goes with her Spanish parents. She feels neither Chinese nor accepted by the children at school.

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Randy Meeks Espinof It is a dramatized fiction that someone has written about the reality of other people they do not know, based on commonalities and sequences that are intended to seem intimate but feel very, very distant. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 2/5 Oct 16, 2023 Full Review Elsa Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) Nonetheless, Chinas is a wake-up call to the lives of others that live amongst us and along the way, it gives moments as beautiful as that underwater shot that unites the two protagonist girls... [Full review in Spanish] Oct 13, 2023 Full Review Alex Montoya Fotogramas Chinas invites us to reflect upon class conscience, to open our minds to what is different, and to accept people as they are. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Oct 13, 2023 Full Review Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain) Arantxa Echevarría creates a comedy-tinged drama that is as exciting and full of luminous moments as it is weighed down by its determination to tell all. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Oct 12, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Christian B The actress for Lucia deserves an Oscar. The plot was beautiful and nuanced and it gives much needed insights into the life of an immigrant. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/24/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The tale of two 9-year-old Chinese girls told parallel to one another. The two start school in Madrid: they look alike, but they are very different: Lucia is the daughter of immigrants. She feels Spanish, she wants to fit in, but her parents don't speak Spanish and they work all day long. They don't even want her to celebrate her birthday at Burger King. Xiang is adopted. She attracts attention wherever she goes with her Spanish parents. She feels neither Chinese nor accepted by the children at school.
Director
Arantxa Echevarría
Producer
Jaime Ortiz de Artiñano, Pilar Sanchez Diaz, Arantxa Echevarría, Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson
Screenwriter
Arantxa Echevarría, Arantxa Echevarría
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 58m