Luxury Car (2006)
A lesser known Chinese family-relationship-gangster-drama that won the Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2006. The story has several threads that blends together, with an aging teacher from the countryside going to the big city in search for his lost son. He gets in contact with his daughter, who unknown to him works as a pleasure girl of some sort, and she gets her gangster boss to play her boyfriend for her father. Along come a policeman who help the searching for the lost son.
It is a very lowkey film that doesn’t boast about its themes, neither tragic or optimistic. There are some odd choices with regards to story telling and time jumps, and I probably miss a lot due to lack of cultural knowledge, but that is just my own blind spots.
Rating: 3