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Thieves Like Us

“Modernism fundamentally rejects a linear narrative of life, in total opposition to social realism. Our lives are a mess, shattered into thousands of pieces.”

FTER WINNING THE GOLDEN BEAR AT Berlin for , Thin Ice in 2014, Diao Yinan shifts from northeastern to southern China for , which received its world premiere at Cannes. Its

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