A couple visit an island to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. The wife’s disappearance sparks a dizzying display of double takes and plot pivots
This mystery drama twist-a-thon from China was a huge hit on home turf recently (far outperforming the latest Indiana Jones feature) and has been picked up for distribution in the UK and the US. Although the 180-degree plot pivots start to get a little ridiculous by the end, the script zips along with such gleeful mischievousness that the ride is too fun to resist. Intriguingly, it is supposedly based on a 1990 Russian film called A Trap for Lonely Man, which was itself an adaptation of a stage play by French writer Robert Thomas for which Alfred Hitchcock once bought the rights. You can see traces of what Hitch might have liked about it, because it’s all about dopplegangers, femmes fatale and paranoia spoiling what...
This mystery drama twist-a-thon from China was a huge hit on home turf recently (far outperforming the latest Indiana Jones feature) and has been picked up for distribution in the UK and the US. Although the 180-degree plot pivots start to get a little ridiculous by the end, the script zips along with such gleeful mischievousness that the ride is too fun to resist. Intriguingly, it is supposedly based on a 1990 Russian film called A Trap for Lonely Man, which was itself an adaptation of a stage play by French writer Robert Thomas for which Alfred Hitchcock once bought the rights. You can see traces of what Hitch might have liked about it, because it’s all about dopplegangers, femmes fatale and paranoia spoiling what...
- 7/11/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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