The Equation of Love & Death

Tuesday, June 23 - Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Powered by nothing more than Zhou Xun’s intense perfromance, this twisty daylight noir hits like a spike of Shanghai white injected right into your aorta. Zhou Xun drops her public persona as a fashionable superstar to play a nail-chewing, obsessive compulsive cab driver desperately searching for her missing boyfriend. With a story that eats its own tail, it’s a movie full of madmen and villains, heroes and cops who, in the end, all become each others’ victims.

• Country China
• Language Mandarin
• Rating NR
• Year 2008
• Running Time 93 minutes
• Director Cao Baoping
• Cast Zhou Xun, Deng Chao, Zhang Hanyu

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