Saturday Fiction

Name: Saturday Fiction
Genre: Drama, History
Released: April 22, 2022
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Alexandre Robillard, Ayumu Nakajima, Chuan-jun Wang, Jô Odagiri, Li Gong

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: April 22, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandre Robillard, Ayumu Nakajima, Chuan-jun Wang, Jô Odagiri, Li Gong, Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory, Tenma Shibuya, Tom Wlaschiha, Xiangli Huang

Summary: 1941. Since the Japanese occupation, China has become a wartime intelligence battlefield for the Allies and the Axis Powers. Iconic actress Jean Yu (Gong Li) returns to Shanghai, ostensibly to appear in the play “Saturday Fiction” directed by her former lover. But what is her true aim? To free her ex-husband? To gather intelligence for the1941. Since the Japanese occupation, China has become a wartime intelligence battlefield for the Allies and the Axis Powers. Iconic actress Jean Yu (Gong Li) returns to Shanghai, ostensibly to appear in the play “Saturday Fiction” directed by her former lover. But what is her true aim? To free her ex-husband? To gather intelligence for the Allied Forces? To work for her adoptive father? Or to escape from war with her lover? As she embarks on her mission, with friends ever more difficult to distinguish from undercover agents, as everything spirals out of control, Jean Yu starts to question whether to reveal what she has learned about in the imminent Pearl Harbor attack.… Expand

Director: Ye Lou

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 126 min

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Richard Brody

Apr 25, 2022

It’s as daring and original a work of political cinema and personal conscience as the current cinema can offer. Read full review

Sam C. Mac

Oct 4, 2019

The hegemony of history is rigid, but Lou Ye is still able to disrupt it in the form of its representation. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Sep 12, 2019

Saturday Fiction certainly demands patience, shrouded at first in a smog of exposition. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Sep 12, 2019

This moody, black-and-white period piece always intrigues, even if it only intermittently catches fire. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 12, 2019

Mesmeric but frustrating ... An explosive third act shootout may be the most remarkable sequence that Lou has ever shot, but all of the hard-boiled fireworks in the world can’t diminish the feeling that he can’t identify his muse on a canvas this big. Read full review

Robert Abele

Apr 21, 2022

As convolutedly scripted by Ma Yingli, and pushed around by the restless camerawork, it’s primarily a spotty fusion of spy-story contrivances and diffuse themes of truth and artifice, although the playground is plenty evocative. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Sep 12, 2019

[A] grandiloquently incoherent misfire Read full review

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