https://mrqe.com Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:19:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/yan-jiao-m100146386/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/yan-jiao-m100146386/ Yang Fan and her husband, Yuan Yong, and Xiao Fang, a restaurant attendant, continued from night to day, and from the sun to a treacherous night. The stories that happened to each other are absurd but extremely sad. The three people were bound to each other but could not leave each other.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/qing-chun-qi-m100084095/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/qing-chun-qi-m100084095/ https://mrqe.com/movie/bends-m100105595/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/bends-m100105595/ Flora Laus debut feature is a beautifully formed, subtle film that focuses on the lives of two people with very different prospects a wealthy Hong Kong woman and her mainland Chinese chauffeur both trying to cope with lifes unexpected dramas. Anna (Carina Lau) struggles to maintain appearances with her status-conscious friends after her husband mysteriously vanishes. Fais (Chen Kun) wife is heavily pregnant with their second child, has no health care entitlements in Hong Kong and cannot give birth in their homeland without incurring penalties for breaching the one-child policy. While their daily routines intersect, their fates only momentarily converge and Lau elegantly critiques the social contradictions at play by paralleling their predicaments rather than constructing drama between the two protagonists. (Source: LFF programme)

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/shanghai-trance-m100072956/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/shanghai-trance-m100072956/ Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals. Cinematographic portrait of modern life in the mega-city of Shanghai is made up of three separate stories about dreams and loves of twentysomethings.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/jiang-cheng-xia-ri-m100030324/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/jiang-cheng-xia-ri-m100030324/ A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son. The two quickly become friends. Yanhong also presents her father to her boyfriend, the owner of the karaoke, an older man, who drives a luxury car. However when the four of them meet for dinner one night the old policeman recognizes the boyfriend as a man he arrested over ten years ago…

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/zuo-you-m100070069/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/zuo-you-m100070069/ A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they’ve both already remarried.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/hu-die-m100024820/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/hu-die-m100024820/ Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/zu-zhou-m100073767/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/zu-zhou-m100073767/ When the leading dancer of Lola is murdered in her dressing room on the very night of the premiere, terror looms over the dance troupe. With the murderer still at large, the coveted role of Lola passes to Tian, a talented but introverted dancer with a traumatic childhood. Suspicion fanned by jealousy soon leads to hostility and rejection from fellow dancers, while figments of childhood memories start haunting her every dream. Tian can only seek solace in the arms of her gaffer boyfriend Zhen. As the murderer strikes again, Tian begins to realize that all the slayings are somehow related to her. No sooner is she inextricably sucked into the curse of the role than she starts suspecting Zhen may actually be harboring a horrifying secret behind these murders and the troupe itself.

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