Various locations
This event has passed.
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Sep 3, 2010 – Oct 8, 2010
Daily
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$12.50
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“If you're a fan of Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Fifth Generation director behind such films as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern, and The House of Flying Daggers, seeing his outrageous adaptation of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple is a no-brainer. Taking inspiration from old Chinese opera, A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop is a visually stunning work set in ancient China. The plot involves a wretched noodle-shop owner who hires a local detective to murder his cheating wife and her lover. Part farce, part thriller, the film is filled with brilliant compositions, most notably the well-choreographed noodle-making sequence which alone is worth the cost of admission.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill
Wang is a miserable yet cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with Li, one of his employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for ‘killing her husband later’. However, not a single move they make escapes the boss’s notice, and he decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end... or so he thinks, but the equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will lead to even more violence.
- A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
