Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two police officers dead and another badly injured. The surviving officer Zhang Zili is suspended from duty; he takes a job as a security guard at a factory. Five years later, another series of mysterious murders occurs. Aided by a former colleague, Zhang decides to investigate under his own initiative. He discovers that all the victims were connected to Wu Zhizhen, a young woman who works at a dry cleaners. Pretending to be a customer, Zhang begins to observe her and finds himself falling in love with the reticent Wu Zhizhen. One cold winter's day he makes a horrific discovery. His life now in danger, he realises it is not always possible to separate guilt from innocence. Diao Yinan's use of the characters of the ex-police officer and the femme fatale is a direct reference to classic detective films. This director's third feature is a noirish thriller in drained colours which, whilst playfully alluding to the genre, also invites us into the lives of very ordinary people.

A stark, harsh murder mystery interspersed with Wong Kar-wai-esque moments of odd urban beauty.

• Ross McIndoe, The Skinny

A masterpiece of framing and composition, Diao Yinan's Black Coal, Thin Ice is a rare kind of film in which no shot feels unconsidered or out of place

• Tom Clift, Movie Mezzanine

STARS.........: Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang DIRECTOR......: Yi'nan Diao WRITERS.......: Yi'nan Diao GENRE.........: Crime | Drama | Mystery RATING........: 6.6/10 3,766 votes IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3469910 RUNTIME.......: 1h 49mn SIZE..........: 3.53 GiB VIDEO CODEC...: x264 ([email protected]) RESOLUTION....: 1920x1040 BITRATE.......: 4000 Kbps (3-Pass) FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO.........: Chinese AC3 5.1 640kbps SOURCE........: Bluray SUBTITLES.....: ENG CHAPTERS......: No ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2015-01-08

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