The fast-evolving economic landscape of China has created new voids and left behind many unaddressed issues; one for all, the world-old pursue of happiness. Director Ming Zhang’s new work poses more stimulating questions we can possibly answer, while it explores the multiple meanings of happiness in a crosshatched pattern of stories and characters. “Hot Soup” is a recent acquisition of Fortissimo Films, a leading organisation in promoting and distributing independent filmmakers from Asia and around the world. It has premiered at 2020 Hainan International Film Festival and screened soon after at the 2020 Warsaw International Film Festival, and it is set to enchant the festival audiences.
The film is set in modern-day Shanghai and follows, in an episodic rhythm, the capers of four young women. The fil rouge that links all the women is the pursue of happiness in their own personal ways. One of these four is Tangtang (Liu Wenyi) a young executive,...
The film is set in modern-day Shanghai and follows, in an episodic rhythm, the capers of four young women. The fil rouge that links all the women is the pursue of happiness in their own personal ways. One of these four is Tangtang (Liu Wenyi) a young executive,...
- 1/11/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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