The Cloud in Her Room

2020

1h 41m

Drama

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83%

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12 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A young woman reflects on her life as she returns home to celebrate Chinese New Year with her family.

Cath Clarke

Guardian

Zheng Lu has distilled the quarter-life crisis feelings of in-betweenness and loneliness into some exquisite cinematic images with a voice distinctively her own.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 9, 2021

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

It's as if Zheng were shuttling from idea to idea, image to image, and leaving the viewer to latch on as best they can to this meandering train of thought.

Mar 18, 2020

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Jessica Kiang

Variety

It feels like the launch of an excitingly uncompromised, offbeat new talent, whose sensibility nods to both the modern slow-burn social realist tradition in China, and the classic European arthouse, without being beholden to either.

Feb 15, 2020

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Ren Scateni

Vague Visages

The Cloud in Her Room is an indie revelation for the dreamers. It invites collected reflections and quiet reminiscences; the eclectic images are a roaring statement.

Sep 21, 2023

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CJ Sheu

The News Lens International

Films in the quarter-life crisis genre ... often treat the drifting ennui of young adulthood as an aberration, or at most a regrettable rite of passage. But what if the ennui itself is what gets you through?

Feb 19, 2022

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Paul Attard

In Review Online

What's even more burdensome here is The Cloud in Her Room's inability to ever build into itself anything that suggests progression.

Jun 5, 2021

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Zhou Chen

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Ye Hongming

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Dong Kangning

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Synopsis

A young woman reflects on her life as she returns home to celebrate Chinese New Year with her family.

Director: Xinyuan Zheng Lu
Producer: Zhen Li, Zijian Wang
Screenwriter: Xinyuan Zheng Lu
Production Co: Blackfin (Beijing) Culture & Media Co., Rediance
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 11, 2021
Runtime: 1h 41m