A Fool

With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.

• Release date
• May 1, 2015
• Runtime
• 103 min
• Genres
• Adventure, Drama, Comedy
• Director
• Chen Jianbin

Cast

Chen Jianbin La Tiaozi Jiang Qinqin Jin Zhizi Wang Xuebing Brother Li Jin Shijia Shao Zi Xufeng Wang Li Laosan