Rape, murder and the turmoils of puberty are all part of the same package in What’s in the Darkness (Hei chu you shen me?), an ambitious feature debut from distaff writer-director Wang Yichun that combines a serial killer mystery with a coming-of-age tale set in 1990's rural China.
Taking several cues from Bong Joon-Ho’s Memories of Murder, but not always mixing its disparate parts into a convincing whole, this polished if overlong effort offers lots to chew on in its portrait of a shy teenage girl whose growing pains are made all the worse by the bodies that keep piling...
Taking several cues from Bong Joon-Ho’s Memories of Murder, but not always mixing its disparate parts into a convincing whole, this polished if overlong effort offers lots to chew on in its portrait of a shy teenage girl whose growing pains are made all the worse by the bodies that keep piling...
- 11/29/2016
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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