Godspeed 人生路不熟 China, 2023, colour, 2.35:1, 99 mins. Director: Yi Xiaoxing 易小星. Rating: 5/10. A comedy road movie centred on a dysfunctional family is strongly cast, starts promisingly but doesn’t go anywhere. STORY Chengdu city, Sichuan province, southwest China, the present day. Geeky Wan Yifan (Fan Chengcheng), a games programmer at DoraDot Technology, meets Zhou … Continue reading Review: Godspeed (2023) →
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