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Mystery
Mystery
6.9
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509 Ratings

MYSTERY

Fu cheng mi shi | 浮城謎事

Directed by Lou Ye
China, France, 2012
Drama

Synopsis

Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental…

Synopsis

Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental…

Our take

Lou Ye takes aim at a range of traditional machinations in this dense, deceptive thriller of infidelities, class divisions, and murder. Deftly balancing the titular enigma with an arresting melodrama, Mystery is engrossing political filmmaking with an enveloping emotional core from start to finish.