Saturday Fiction

A moody, shadowy wartime puzzle that keeps you at a distance, asking you to track loyalties through smoke and mirrors.

Directed by

Lou Ye

Genres

Action, Drama

Starring

Gong Li, Mark Chao You-ting, Joe Odagiri

Overview

It’s 1941, and China has become a wartime intelligence battlefield. Actor Jean Yu returns to Shanghai, ostensibly to appear in the play “Saturday Fiction,” directed by her former lover. But what is her true aim? To free her ex-husband? To gather intelligence for the Allied forces? To work for her adoptive father? Or to escape from war with her lover? As she embarks on her mission, with friends ever more difficult to distinguish from undercover agents, Jean Yu starts to question whether to reveal what she has learned about the imminent Pearl Harbor attack.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Identity, betrayal, war, deception

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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