6.3
Afternoon
2007
The Breaking Ice (2023)
August 22, 20231h 40mZH
6.4
52 votes
Overview
In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.
Director
Anthony ChenWriter
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Streaming availability for India
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Status
Released
Original Language
Mandarin
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$2.9M
Production Companies
Canopy PicturesHuace MediaGiraffe Pictures
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User Reviews
Brent Marchant
4.0No matter how hard a film tries to convey a profound message through imagery and symbolism, if it doesn’t have a cohesive narrative underlying that undertaking, it’s not likely to succeed. Such is the case with this latest offering from writer-director Anthony Chen, who tells the story of three diverse but disconnected twenty-somethings (Dongyu Zhou, Haoran Liu, Chuxiao Qu) seeking to find their way in life in the northern Chinese city of Yanji, not far from the North Korean border. Set in the dead of winter, this unlikely trio comes together through impromptu (and, in all honesty, seemingly i…
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