"SUZHOU RIVER is a wonderment, bristling with frenzies wrought by a hand-held camera, the crisply edited montages of riparian denizens and passers-by, a mermaid fairy-tale and most prominently, a subjective POV of an unnamed videographer, a flâneur whose face is never shown, and whose voice-over channels you into the love imbroglio, Mardar (Jia), a courier on motorcycle, crosses his path with Mudan (Zhou), the ponytailed daughter of a rich businessman, they fall in love, but deception ensues, Mudan is devastated and jumps into the Suzhou river and is never found again. Years later, an out-of-the-slammer Mardar returns and finds Mudan's doppelgänger in Meimei (Zhou), the videographer's girlfriend, is Meimei and Mudan the same person? And can Mardar have a second chance to redress his mistake? Or will the doomed lovers motif prevail again?"
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read my full review on my blog: cinema omnivore, thanks.