Review of If You Are the One (2008) by Eric A — 14 Jan 2011

Imagine a comedian directing a movie: you get an inelegant man in his 50's evolving in a maze of blind dates, with modern China's female archetypes (all singles). I didn't enter the first part so much, but surprisingly liked the second better, when Qin, the anti-hero, lowers his guard a bit and shows more of his feelings.

A tad predictable, I found the scene in Hokkaido reminiscent of Edward Yang's 'Yi Yi'. A light comedy, of course, but there would be so much more to say about contemporary China...