Premiering in competition at Tokyo, the Chinese artist and filmmaker's second feature is less intellectually nourishing than his debut 'A New Old Play,' but is rich in culinary and cinematic pleasures.
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Tokyo International Film Festival Lauded for the stylized studio environments of his debut fiction feature, 2021’s Locarno prizewinner “A New Old Play,” Qiu Jiongjiong returns to the soundstage for a second helping in his follow-up, “Fuxi: Four Tales of Feasting.” “A New Old Play” told the story of an actor who played different roles in successive epochs of Chinese history, and made his life into a three-hour pageant by using stage techniques: rippling bedsheets dyed a watery blue for ocean waves; fake plastic trees for nature. “Fuxi” has no such neat thematic relation between subject and style, but it’s a joy to be back on the soundstage with Qiu regardless.
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