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  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 58 m

Summary Hao (Mason Lee) is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. A younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mi...

Directed By: Sheng Qiu

Written By: Sheng Qiu

  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 58 m
  • 2019
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 58 m

Suburban Birds

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Hao (Mason Lee) is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. A younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mi...

Directed By: Sheng Qiu

Written By: Sheng Qiu

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
86% Positive
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0% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
86% Positive
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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14% Negative
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100
Apr 5, 2019
The spectacular feature-directing debut of Qiu Sheng.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 5, 2019
It’s the kind of movie you sit on, but then can’t wait to revisit. Suburban Birds is a rewarding and revelatory first feature from a fresh artistic voice.
By Andrew Bundy FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 2, 2019
This pleasing, if perplexing, feature debut from Qiu Sheng takes an agile and experimental approach to structure, as two story strands glance off each other, and occasionally intersect.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 2, 2019
Viewers, too, may feel at once cast adrift in the film’s amorphous quests, and languidly seduced by its disorder.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 2, 2019
Enigmatic but oddly entrancing feature debut.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 2, 2019
The film’s refusal to commit to its passing fancies is a highly intentional and eventually tiresome declaration of Qui Sheng’s arthouse bona fides.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
30
Apr 12, 2019
As it stands now though, the acting is good, but the narrative moves like molasses, leaving the audience at a distance.
By Bobby LePire FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Chan Films, Flash Forward Entertainment
Release Date Apr 5, 2019
Duration 1 h 58 m
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Awards

QCinema International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
First Youth Film Festival
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
International Film Festival & Awards Macao
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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