Rotten
An artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Overview
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Director and cast
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62%
Tomatometer
Fresh
With Beijing Bicycle, Wang has crafted a picturesque morality tale that slyly depicts the hopelessness of communism while pointing up the essential similarities between people of all classes.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
Make no mistake, [Wang's] camera is saying, and don't be deceived by the Communist rhetoric -- this city is as class-ridden as any in the West.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
While Wang Xiaoshuai's film doesn't plumb the depths, nor resonate with the kind of profound irony of Vittoria De Sica's 1947 classic, it is nonetheless an affecting, poignant drama.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
What's most unusual about Beijing Bicycle in terms of recent Chinese history is that any form of class conflict is depicted at all.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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