Wild Goose Lake, The

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Diao Yinan’s visually dazzling crime thriller of a gangster on the run and the woman sent to find him is a feast for the eyes. Zhou (Hu Ge) challenges a fellow thief to see who can steal the most motorcycles in one night. When the competition goes horribly awry, Zhou must evade both his criminal colleagues as well as an ill-equipped police force. Crafting a series a set-pieces that continually raise the stakes, Diao immediately cements himself as a filmmaker to watch amid the current renaissance underway throughout contemporary Asian cinema.

Chinese language, English subtitles.