The Wild Goose Lake
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Synopsis
A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
Cast
- Ge Hu
- Lun-Mei Kwei
- Fan Liao
- Regina Wan
- Dao Qi
- Jue Huang
- Zeng Meihuizi
- Yicong Zhang
- Yongzhong Chen
- Chloe Maayan
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- Oct 22, 2019
Manhunt in a police state. Very well-imagined with a strong sense of Langian paranoia, a rich textured underground world and good outbursts of violence. With every film Diao Yinan gets better into using pulp to comment on current China.
Filipe FurtadoMay 18, 2019An invigorating, poetic, and discretely brilliant Chinese noir that adds up to less than the sum of its parts, Diao Yinan’s “The Wild Goose Lake” can’t help but feel like a mild comedown from the director’s Berlinale-winning 2014, “Black Coal, Thin Ice.” To some degree,…
davidehrlichMar 29, 2020Seijun Suzuki 2020
matt lynch - Jun 9, 2025
I think Chinese noir might be my new obsession!!! I threw this on knowing basically nothing, with zero expectations and I ended up really loving it. "The Wild Goose Lake" is a slow-burn, ultra-stylish crime thriller that follows a criminal during his final days on the run,…
MrPPeepsMar 18, 2020BIG cinnamon tography!
˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗Nov 13, 2019The Wild Goose Lake is a stylish crime thriller. It follows the last days of a criminal, telling the story with beautiful shots, an inconsistent tension, and a specific dialect. Through the saturated colours of the night, The Wild Goose Lake presents death as inevitable.…
Darren Carver-Balsiger - May 18, 2019
A few days ago, John Carpenter described directing as the art of deciding what to emphasize. What Diao Yinan argues is: what if it isn't? What if you just throw up a bunch of neon-slicked images on screen without much regard to emphasis or advancing narrative or clarity or…
Doug DillamanWell, from time to time, I encounter a movie that checks two boxes on one. On one hand, it shows the beauty that is finding out an amazing movie going in blind. And second of all, it goes to proof why sometimes, adding to your watch list weird films from people in this page…
Rafael "Mister Movie" JovineJan 18, 2024A damn fine neo-noir/crime drama/romantic tragedy from Chinese director Diao Yinan. I really dug Diao's Black Coal, Thin Ice, and The Wild Goose Lake is about on par with that movie for me. The thing I like most about his movies so far (besides the way they look) is that…
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Mar 5, 2020
The movie exhilarates.
Glenn Kenny
The New York Times
Sep 9, 2019
The film’s masterstroke is that its fugitive antiheroes are framed by an environment that reflects their criminal lives back at them.
Sam C. Mac
Slant Magazine
May 23, 2019
Like a more showily virtuosic version of his countryman Jia Zhangke (who worked with Liao in his own recent gangster thriller “Ash Is Purest White”), Diao uses the conventions of genre to illuminate a world where crime, corruption, rapid social flux and soul-crushing inequality are inextricably intertwined.
Justin Chang
Los Angeles Times
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is The Wild Goose Lake (2020)?
The movie is 1hr 53min long.
What's The Wild Goose Lake (2020) about?
A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
Who's the cast of The Wild Goose Lake (2020)?
- Ge Hu as Zenong Zhou
- Lun-Mei Kwei as Aiai Liu
- Fan Liao as Captain Liu
- Regina Wan as Shujun Yang
- Dao Qi as Hua Hua
- Jue Huang as Yan Ge
- Zeng Meihuizi
- Yicong Zhang as Xiao Dongbei
- Yongzhong Chen as Client
- Chloe Maayan as Ping Ping
Who's the director behind The Wild Goose Lake (2020)?
Yi'nan Diao directed The Wild Goose Lake (2020).
Who produced The Wild Goose Lake (2020)?
Li Li, Alexandre Mallet-Guy and Michel Merkt produced The Wild Goose Lake (2020).
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