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Chinaman

2005 · 88 min

A quiet, tender slow-burn that finds warmth in loneliness and quietly breaks your heart.

Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Overview
Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life's diversity.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • love
  • isolation
  • immigration
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
Henrik Ruben Genz
Written by
Kim Fupz Aakeson
Starring
Bjarne Henriksen, Vivian Wu, Charlotte Fich, Paw Henriksen, Nicolas Winding Refn, Lin Kun Wu, Johan Rabaeus, Jeppe Kaas
Runtime
88 min
Country
Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Languages
Danish

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