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‘Atlantic Rhapsody’ Takes Top Prize at Shanghai Film Festival
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‘Atlantic Rhapsody’ Takes Top Prize at Shanghai Film Festival

The Hollywood Reporter·Mathew Scott·3 months ago
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The Shanghai International Film Festival’s main jury wore its heart on its collective sleeve Saturday night, giving the top Golden Goblet prize to first-timer Zhong Kaifeng’s Atlantic Rhapsody and revealing they had all been “captivated and impressed” by the director’s bold approach to moviemaking. At the start of this year’s June 12-21 event, jury head and Hong Kong legend Tony Leung Chiu-wai had revealed that early conversations among his group — which included directors Guan Hu, Aktan Arym Kubat, Déa Kulumbegashvili and Fernanda Valadez, producer Dora Bouchoucha and actress Xin Zhilei — had found them unanimous in a desire to look for “surprises.” And the 29-year-old Zhong certainly delivered on that with his debut, which circles around a young man (Wang Yitong) searching for a father who left his home in the far north as China turned into the 2000s, looking for the riches offered by the industrial boom down south.…

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