Are You Lonesome Tonight?
June 23, 2023
The Chinese neo-noir thriller Are You Lonesome Tonight? will be released on DVD and digital July 18 from Film Movement.
In the film, one dark night, AC repairman Wang Xueming (Eddie Peng, The Rescue) hits a pedestrian with his van, panics and flees the scene. Tormented by the accident and desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he approaches the widow, Mrs. Liang (Sylvia Chang), and strikes up a relationship. Meanwhile, her husband’s body is discovered — riddled with bullets. Though he’s determined to piece together the complete events of that fateful night, Wang is also being stalked by a shadowy killer (Lu Xin) who spotted his van at the site of the hit-and-run. To complicate matters further, the detective in charge of the investigation, Chen, becomes obsessed with the case. Years later, the trio remain trapped in a tangled web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
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Director Wen Shipei made his feature film debut with the Cannes Camer D-Or-nominated thriller.
The release includes a bonus short film “Killing Time,” also directed by Wen Shipei, which is about a futuristic super-assassin who meets his match.