Chinese Boxes is a 1984 British-West German crime mystery thriller film directed by Chris Petit and starring Will Patton and Robbie Coltrane.[1][2] The film was partially German funded.[3]
Filming for Chinese Boxes was filmed in East Berlin during 1984. The film's score was composed by a Stasi informer who also lived in East Berlin.[4]
Releaseedit
Chinese Boxes premiered on 29 November 1984 in the United Kingdom.[citation needed] Years later the movie was screened in 2013 as part of Petit's Museum of Loneliness project, also in the United Kingdom.[5]
Receptionedit
Critical reception was generally favorable.[6]Derek Malcolm reviewed Chinese Boxes for The Guardian, commenting that it "looks good and is at least lively".[7]The Independent remarked that the movie was "a quintessential Eighties riddle-thriller with a hint of Godard's Made in USA in its comic-strip flatness: it features a showdown in a paper-pulping yard, a foretaste of Petit's later preoccupation with pulped and discarded culture."[8]
Chinese Boxes has also received a 2013 review from Chris Darke in Sight & Sound.[9]
Referencesedit
^"Chinese Boxes". Time Out. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
^"Mr. Big goes over the wall". The Guardian (Newspapers.com). May 11, 1985.
^Sargeant, Amy (2019-07-25). British Cinema: A Critical and Interpretive History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 276. ISBN978-1-83871-476-5.
^"Border zones: 'Berlin in the 1980s was like an advert for hedonism'". the Guardian. 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
^"The Museum of Loneliness film night". Prototype. 2013-10-03. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
^Davison, Norman (November 1, 1985). "Anarchy, but it's fun galore". The Journal Newspapers.com.
^Malcolm, Derek (June 20, 1985). "Love cast in a bitter mould". The Guardian (Newspapers.com).
^"Man on the outside". The Independent. 2004-10-09. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
^"Sight & Sound: the February 2013 issue". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
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