Free+Easy

FREE + EASY (2017) dir. Geng Jun w/Xu Gang, Zhang Zhiyong, Xue Baohe [98 min; DCP]

With tinges of the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, and Samuel Beckett, director Geng presents a portrait of a socio-economic system so flawed that it has veered into black comedy – a practically post-apocalyptic world where crime is the new normal. In a Northern Chinese industrial town, everyone – even the local monk – is running a con and the police are more interested in chasing girls than criminals.

Winner of a special jury award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival