The Looming Storm
Dong Yue , China, 2017o
1997. In southern China, where a full social and industrial transformation is underway, Yu Guowei, head of security in an old factory, investigates a series of murders involving young female victims. Faced with a police force that is not making any progress, Yu becomes obsessed with the case.
Like a chinese cousin of the Korean film Memories of Murder directed by Bong Joon-ho, this social detective story is the director’s first film.