Brief History of a Family
RELEASE DATE: TBA
Summary:
In post one-child policy China, a middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
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It is a premise that facilitates a forensic examination of China’s family planning model within the quasi-futuristic trappings of its urbanised present. It is also paradoxically highly specific in its subject yet incredibly difficult to pin down in terms of its broader identity, as it skilfully skirts genre lines.
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Jan 24, 2024
Crafted with such delightful suspense that you can’t help but smile as you squirm, Brief History of a Family pulls from plenty of genre influences (its have/have-not friction and affluent apartment confines will be familiar to Parasite fans) to construct a tight dramatic metaphor encompassing Chinese parenting values and the end of a sociopolitical era.
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