The Message (15)
part of East Winds: Asian Film Festival
Sun 13 Feb
Cinema £6.60 (£5.35)
Country: China
Cast: Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Zhang Hanyu, Huang Xiaoming
Year of Release: 2009
Subtitled
Original Title: Feng Sheng
Certificate: 15
Length of film: 114mins
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CloseGood acting and a well-plotted mystery make for an entertaining ride in Chinese hit The Message, an Agatha Christie-style, WWII-era drama. Set in a luxuriously furnished stone castle and boasting ample star power, this film is about sinister government agents trying to unmask a spy for the resistance.
The year is 1942, and five officials working in traitor Wang Jinwei’s puppet government – among them an expert code-breaker Li, her close friend and feisty associate Gu, and violent military captain Wu – are summoned and held captive for interrogation by Japanese colonel Takeda, with one in the group believed to be a resistance infiltrator codenamed Phantom. On the other side of the battle, the unidentified, fiercely patriotic mole has to get word outside to abort a misconceived mission, the execution of which will likely spell the end of the resistance force.
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