Suburban Birds

Name: Suburban Birds
Genre: Drama
Released: April 5, 2019
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Huang Lu, Mason Lee, Zihan Gong

2019

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: April 5, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Huang Lu, Mason Lee, Zihan Gong

Summary: Hao (Mason Lee) is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. A younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and makingHao (Mason Lee) is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. As he and his team survey the subsiding area, another story is taking place in the same suburban landscape. A younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mischief until one-by-one, his playmates start to disappear. As these parallel stories unfold, the connections between them proliferate and grow stranger. [Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Sheng Qiu

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 118 min

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Glenn Kenny

Apr 5, 2019

The spectacular feature-directing debut of Qiu Sheng. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Bundy

Apr 5, 2019

It’s the kind of movie you sit on, but then can’t wait to revisit. Suburban Birds is a rewarding and revelatory first feature from a fresh artistic voice. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Apr 2, 2019

Viewers, too, may feel at once cast adrift in the film’s amorphous quests, and languidly seduced by its disorder. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Apr 2, 2019

Enigmatic but oddly entrancing feature debut. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Apr 2, 2019

This pleasing, if perplexing, feature debut from Qiu Sheng takes an agile and experimental approach to structure, as two story strands glance off each other, and occasionally intersect. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Apr 2, 2019

The film’s refusal to commit to its passing fancies is a highly intentional and eventually tiresome declaration of Qui Sheng’s arthouse bona fides. Read full review

Bobby LePire

Apr 12, 2019

As it stands now though, the acting is good, but the narrative moves like molasses, leaving the audience at a distance. Read full review

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