Streaming giant Netflix continues to boast an impressive array of films for cinephiles. Here’s a rundown of the ten best new movies available in May 2024. The Breaking Ice Directed by Anthony Chen, The Breaking Ice delves into the profound loneliness experienced by its protagonists. The film opens with Haofeng, a depressed young man from Shanghai, who visits Yanji and meets Nana, a tour guide, and her friend Xiao, a frustrated restaurant worker. As their newfound friendship deepens, personal truths unfold. The Sales Girl Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s film The Sales Girl portrays Saruul, a shy nuclear engineering student stepping in as
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- 5/16/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
The titular term refers to the strong winds that visit the coastal city and county of Hsinchu between September and November. Tom Lin, in his multi-awarded, semi-autobiographical debut, focuses on the period, both literally and metaphorically, while presenting a coming-of-age story that takes place in 1996, during the time of a tragic baseball game-fixing scandal in Taiwan.The movie was produced by Eric Tsang, who also has a small role in it.
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A ‘gang' of a number of teenage boys led by pretty boy Yen, good student Tang and ‘righteous' Hsing, are experiencing all the regular “blights” of their age, in the midst of the aforementioned scandal. Yen is dating Yun, but is a true womanizer who always hangs out with other women, leaving his friends to take care of his mess, to their annoyance, particularly of Xiao, who...
Follow our tribute to Taiwanese cinema by clicking on the image below
A ‘gang' of a number of teenage boys led by pretty boy Yen, good student Tang and ‘righteous' Hsing, are experiencing all the regular “blights” of their age, in the midst of the aforementioned scandal. Yen is dating Yun, but is a true womanizer who always hangs out with other women, leaving his friends to take care of his mess, to their annoyance, particularly of Xiao, who...
- 3/2/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The clue to unlocking the delicate dynamics of Singaporean writer-director Anthony Chen’s The Breaking Ice is in its very title. Certainly, the film is too eager to underline how its characters’ sexual and emotional entanglements are symbolic of water in its various forms. But, in the end, Chen’s portrayal of three repressed twentysomethings whose lives converge in the sleepy Chinese northern border town of Yanji is unpredictable for being less focused on the freedom of catharsis than on the messiness of self-actualization.
The Breaking Ice is fixated on intense in-between states that work to separate people from each other and from themselves, as if to say self-acceptance and love aren’t destinations so much as journeys, at once formidable and worthwhile. But the film is also about how some of the barriers that hold us back are unnatural, political, and classed. As Yanji is a working-class city near...
The Breaking Ice is fixated on intense in-between states that work to separate people from each other and from themselves, as if to say self-acceptance and love aren’t destinations so much as journeys, at once formidable and worthwhile. But the film is also about how some of the barriers that hold us back are unnatural, political, and classed. As Yanji is a working-class city near...
- 1/14/2024
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
After “Come Drink With Me” Hong Kong director King Hu probably could have stayed with Shaw Brothers Studio, but instead left the country for Taiwan where he would form his own company and in the years to come, make some of the best movies of his career. While the budget and conditions had certainly changed, Hu continued exploring the themes of his last feature in “Dragon Inn”, arguably his most popular movie aside from “A Touch of Zen”. As one of the most referred to entry in the wuxia genre, it not only provided cinephiles with great fight choreographies, great performances and a wonderful setting, with the architecture of the inn itself being the star of the show, “Dragon Inn” also proved how the genre would blend a highly entertaining formula with a very interesting and (after all these years) still quite appealing social commentary about the relationship of subject and ruler.
- 11/16/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The second of the two movies Anthony Chen directed in 2023, “The Breaking Ice” has very little to do with the aesthetics of the ‘French' “Drift”, although elements of European cinema can also be found here. Also of note is the presence of Zhou Dongyu, probably the biggest star ever to appear in the director's filmography, while the film is the Singaporean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
“The Breaking Ice“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
The story takes place in the frozen Yanji, a small Chinese town close to the North Korean border, where a large Korean community is also inhabiting. Nana, alienated from her family and scarred mentally and physically from an accident in the past, is currently working as a bus-tour guide, seemingly cheerful around her customers. One of the regular stops of her tour is at a local restaurant run by Xiao's family,...
“The Breaking Ice“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
The story takes place in the frozen Yanji, a small Chinese town close to the North Korean border, where a large Korean community is also inhabiting. Nana, alienated from her family and scarred mentally and physically from an accident in the past, is currently working as a bus-tour guide, seemingly cheerful around her customers. One of the regular stops of her tour is at a local restaurant run by Xiao's family,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Adelaide, July 11 (Ians) Chinese footballer Xiao Yuyi shared her excitement about playing in the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time.
Monday afternoon saw the Chinese national football team continue their training in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, reports Xinhua.
Wang Shuang, a player for Racing Louisville Fc in the US National Women’s Soccer League, arrived in the morning to join the team’s training.
This signifies that all 23 players on China’s roster for the 2023 World Cup have arrived at the Team Base Camp in Adelaide. The tournament, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, runs from July 20 through August 20.
During the training session, Xiao, who debuted in the Australian women’s football top flight last season with Adelaide United, expressed her desire to make her dream come true in the city she once called home.
“I think I am quite familiar with this city.
Monday afternoon saw the Chinese national football team continue their training in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, reports Xinhua.
Wang Shuang, a player for Racing Louisville Fc in the US National Women’s Soccer League, arrived in the morning to join the team’s training.
This signifies that all 23 players on China’s roster for the 2023 World Cup have arrived at the Team Base Camp in Adelaide. The tournament, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, runs from July 20 through August 20.
During the training session, Xiao, who debuted in the Australian women’s football top flight last season with Adelaide United, expressed her desire to make her dream come true in the city she once called home.
“I think I am quite familiar with this city.
- 7/11/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
‘The Breaking Ice’ Review: An Unusually Even-Sided Love Triangle Gently Thaws a Winter of Discontent
Over the course of his first three features — “Ilo Ilo,” “Wet Season” and this year’s “Drift” — Singaporean director Anthony Chen has developed a signature style. It is a graceful, lucid classicism, a mode that in its straightforward sincerity is not fashionable in our abrasive moment, but can yield significant satisfactions. That is certainly true of his second film of 2023, “The Breaking Ice,” which describes, in a trio of perfectly judged performances, the burgeoning, momentous and yet fleeting connection between three differently lonely people — a love triangle with rounded, snowdrift corners.
Yu Jing-Pin’s lovely photography contrasts wintry wides and warm close-ups, as writer-director Chen carves out three characters against the frozen landscapes of Yanji, a small Chinese town in shouting distance of the North Korean border. This is the current home of Nana an unfulfilled bus-tour guide who switches on her ready smile for her passengers — and switches it...
Yu Jing-Pin’s lovely photography contrasts wintry wides and warm close-ups, as writer-director Chen carves out three characters against the frozen landscapes of Yanji, a small Chinese town in shouting distance of the North Korean border. This is the current home of Nana an unfulfilled bus-tour guide who switches on her ready smile for her passengers — and switches it...
- 6/15/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
By Khushi Jain
Anthony Chen's “The Breaking Ice” is a story of icy personal histories and hearts waiting to be melted. The film premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
Three people, Nana (Zhou Dongyu), Xiao (Qu Chuxiao) and Haofeng (Liu Haoran) come together in the frozen landscapes of Yanji, a small town on China's North Korean border, and form such emotional, psychological, physical and existential bonds that their lives are completely changed forever. Khushi Jain met Anthony and Dongyu on Monday, May 22, a day after the premiere, to talk about the film.
The Breaking Ice is screening at Cannes Official poster – 76th edition © Photo © Jack Garofalo/Paris Match/Scoop – Création graphique © Hartland Villa
The film opens with a very beautiful and sombre sequence of cutting ice, and there is ice skating and chewing ice, and the title itself is quite icy. Where does...
Anthony Chen's “The Breaking Ice” is a story of icy personal histories and hearts waiting to be melted. The film premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.
Three people, Nana (Zhou Dongyu), Xiao (Qu Chuxiao) and Haofeng (Liu Haoran) come together in the frozen landscapes of Yanji, a small town on China's North Korean border, and form such emotional, psychological, physical and existential bonds that their lives are completely changed forever. Khushi Jain met Anthony and Dongyu on Monday, May 22, a day after the premiere, to talk about the film.
The Breaking Ice is screening at Cannes Official poster – 76th edition © Photo © Jack Garofalo/Paris Match/Scoop – Création graphique © Hartland Villa
The film opens with a very beautiful and sombre sequence of cutting ice, and there is ice skating and chewing ice, and the title itself is quite icy. Where does...
- 5/27/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
You’d expect a movie called “The Breaking Ice” to be cold and Anthony Chen’s gentle drama about three isolated young people finding moments of connection definitely stays away from passionate and heated statements. But it’d be a mistake to think that Chen’s restraint comes at the expense of feeling, because “The Breaking Ice” is one of the most beautifully evocative films to screen during the first few days of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
A luminous “Jules and Jim” riff with a stunning visual design and a real purpose to its apparent aimlessness, “The Breaking Ice” screened on Sunday in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, bringing the Singaporean director back to the festival where he won the Camera d’Or for “Ilo Ilo” in 2013, and also appeared as part of the Covid-era anthology film “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” in 2021.
“The Breaking Ice...
A luminous “Jules and Jim” riff with a stunning visual design and a real purpose to its apparent aimlessness, “The Breaking Ice” screened on Sunday in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, bringing the Singaporean director back to the festival where he won the Camera d’Or for “Ilo Ilo” in 2013, and also appeared as part of the Covid-era anthology film “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” in 2021.
“The Breaking Ice...
- 5/21/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Strand Releasing releases the film in New York City theaters on Friday, January 19 and in Los Angeles theaters on Friday, January 26.
A sweet and shimmeringly beautiful film about how life can flow and then freeze and then thaw into something entirely new if you let it, Anthony Chen’s “The Breaking Ice” finds hope in the most frigid of places. In this case, that place is the small Chinese border city of Yanji during the depths of its endless winter, when people’s breath is as thick as the gray fumes that spew out of the factory smokestacks, and the snowy peak of Changbai Mountain looks closer to heaven than it does to Pyongyang. More than half a million people live there (many of them ethnic Koreans), but few of them seem to think of it as home.
A sweet and shimmeringly beautiful film about how life can flow and then freeze and then thaw into something entirely new if you let it, Anthony Chen’s “The Breaking Ice” finds hope in the most frigid of places. In this case, that place is the small Chinese border city of Yanji during the depths of its endless winter, when people’s breath is as thick as the gray fumes that spew out of the factory smokestacks, and the snowy peak of Changbai Mountain looks closer to heaven than it does to Pyongyang. More than half a million people live there (many of them ethnic Koreans), but few of them seem to think of it as home.
- 5/21/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Ten years after winning the Camera d’Or in Cannes for “Ilo Ilo,” director Anthony Chen is back with “The Breaking Ice.”
The film, which premieres in Un Certain Regard on May 21, is set in Yanji, a border city in north China, and follows a budding relationship between three 20-somethings as they spend a few days together. Nour Films has acquired the pic for France, while Rediance are handling worldwide sales.
Chen became the first Singaporean to win an award at Cannes with his short film “Ah Ma” in 2007. In 2013, he won the Camera d’Or for his debut feature “Ilo Ilo.” His sophomore film “Wet Season” was nominated for the Platform Prize at Toronto. Chen made his English-language debut with “Drift,” starring Cynthia Erivo, which premiered at Sundance in January.
“The Breaking Ice” marks Chen’s first film shot in mainland China. Watch a clip from the movie below:...
The film, which premieres in Un Certain Regard on May 21, is set in Yanji, a border city in north China, and follows a budding relationship between three 20-somethings as they spend a few days together. Nour Films has acquired the pic for France, while Rediance are handling worldwide sales.
Chen became the first Singaporean to win an award at Cannes with his short film “Ah Ma” in 2007. In 2013, he won the Camera d’Or for his debut feature “Ilo Ilo.” His sophomore film “Wet Season” was nominated for the Platform Prize at Toronto. Chen made his English-language debut with “Drift,” starring Cynthia Erivo, which premiered at Sundance in January.
“The Breaking Ice” marks Chen’s first film shot in mainland China. Watch a clip from the movie below:...
- 5/15/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The Challenge: USA said goodbye to another two competitors on Wednesday's shocking episode.
Derek Xiao and Shannon St. Clair were the unlucky duo thrown into the elimination.
Shannon believes she hurt her place in the game by revealing her injury, but she maintains that she only meant to say that to Derek.
"But I'm really loud. Like, I scream when I talk. So, they could all see me danging. I got my sneaker caught in the rope ladder, and that's when I pulled my hamstring," St. Clair tells TV Fanatic.
"That was my first mistake, saying it too loud so everyone could hear. I knew there was a target on our back, but then again, we finished, and many people didn't even attempt and got disqualified."
Shannon revealed that David and Desi pulled her aside and let them know they were being put in, something Shannon "appreciated."
"That was a little behind the scenes.
Derek Xiao and Shannon St. Clair were the unlucky duo thrown into the elimination.
Shannon believes she hurt her place in the game by revealing her injury, but she maintains that she only meant to say that to Derek.
"But I'm really loud. Like, I scream when I talk. So, they could all see me danging. I got my sneaker caught in the rope ladder, and that's when I pulled my hamstring," St. Clair tells TV Fanatic.
"That was my first mistake, saying it too loud so everyone could hear. I knew there was a target on our back, but then again, we finished, and many people didn't even attempt and got disqualified."
Shannon revealed that David and Desi pulled her aside and let them know they were being put in, something Shannon "appreciated."
"That was a little behind the scenes.
- 8/12/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
A twist during the elimination in the August 10 episode of The Challenge: USA seemed to give one team the advantage… until their strategy failed them. After Survivor‘s Desi Williams and Big Brother‘s David Alexander won the daily challenge, they sent in Love Island‘s Shannon St. Clair and Big Brother‘s Derek Xiao to face off with the losing team, Love Island‘s Justine Ndiba and Big Brother‘s Enzo Palumbo. Each team had to move stacks of tires from one platform to another, and St. Clair and Xiao while had five fewer tires after Justine misspelled a word backwards (the twist), they built theirs too high. St. Clair and Xiao open up about that elimination and revealed what wasn’t aired. During the daily, Shannon, you got hurt. Do you regret calling attention to that? Or would you have been sent in anyway? St. Clair: I think...
- 8/11/2022
- TV Insider
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