The Wild Goose Lake's reviews
Media reviews
Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
"A magnificent noir film full of visual ideas and filled with talent".
El Mundo
"It fills the screen in every shot, every movement, until the perfect construction of the dream of a crazy monkey".
Screen Daily
Diao?s flamboyant direction means that he often sets up one elaborately staged tableau just for a single shot, those shots sometimes coming in expansive flurries; some action scenes also feature lightning inserts fired off with surreal abruptness, as in the first gang rumble.
The Hollywood Reporter
"It leaves you in its wake a series of memorable set-pieces and a dense, dark web of violence and fatality".
Los Angeles Times
The movie itself is about many things, from the brutal waste and expendability of life in contemporary China to the hard nocturnal shimmer of Dong Jinsong?s cinematography.
Caimán Cuadernos de Cine
"This is a well constructed piece, effective, but may be lacking in novelty or surprise".
El País
"It has a noir film vocation, exciting things are foreshadowed, but I repeat, only boredom".
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote