Summer of Changsha

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Summer of Changsha

2019

2h 0m

Crime

Drama

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7 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A detective on a murder case falls in love with a surgeon he meets during the investigation.

Jessica Kiang

Variety

Trapped in a muddy, deterministic plot, hurting, guilt-ridden characters bond tenuously while a seasonal heat wave makes everyone torpid and irritable, and generally no one seems to have much fun, least of all the audience.

May 30, 2019

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Deborah Young

The Hollywood Reporter

The poetic screenplay is reinforced by Dong Yingda's melancholy score with its poignant repeated motif and Jeffrey Chu's romantic lighting.

May 28, 2019

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Jonathan Romney

Screen International

A disappointingly lacklustre affair whose procedural thrills get increasingly bogged down in a morass of tepid psychodrama, with transcendental trimmings.

May 23, 2019

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Chris Mello

In Review Online

[Summer of Changsha is] a maudlin piece of fake deep psychodrama that doesn’t even have the good sense to entertain. Changsha is a film that hardly establishes the goodwill it works so hard to erode over two very long hours.

May 18, 2022

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Àngel Quintana

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

[Director] Zu Feng falls progressively in rhetoric until the film breaks down. [Full review in Spanish]

May 29, 2019

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

Little by little this film degrades, disintegrating, derailing and in its second half directly loses the axis and the compass. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 2.5/5

May 28, 2019

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Scott H

I enjoyed it immensly, but I lived in China as a Westerner for years, and many little nuances resonate with me. I suspect many of the 'top critics' who rated it low were unaware of Chinese culture and tried watching it through their safe and familiar Western framework. If you like Chinese movies and serials, and a familiar with Chinese customs, then you will get so much more out of this than someone who sees foreign films as merely foreign.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/23/23

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Feng Zu

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Yu Tian

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Zhou Yang

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Synopsis

A detective on a murder case falls in love with a surgeon he meets during the investigation.

Director: Feng Zu
Producer: Li Rui
Screenwriter: Zhou Yang
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Runtime: 2h 0m