Chinese take away
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chinese take away |
| Original title | Un cuento chino |
| Country of production | Argentina |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sebastián Borensztein |
| script | Sebastián Borensztein |
| production |
Pablo Bossi , Juan Pablo Buscarini , Gerardo Herrero , Axel Kuschevatzky , Ben Odell |
| music | Lucio Godoy |
| camera | Rodrigo Pulpeiro |
| cut |
Pablo Barbieri Carrera , Fernando Pardo |
| occupation | |
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Chinese Takeout is a 2011 Argentinian feature film . Directed by Sebastián Borensztein . The comedy is about the encounter between an Argentine hardware dealer and a Chinese man who came to Buenos Aires in search of his uncle without speaking a word of Spanish.
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In Fucheng , China , 25-year-old Jun goes on a boat trip with his fiancée. When he is about to propose to her, the boat is hit by a cow falling from the sky. Only Jun survived.
On the other side of the globe, the loner Roberto runs a hardware store in Buenos Aires . The daily routine is fixed, every evening at 11 p.m. he turns off the light to sleep. He loves to cut out bizarre reports from newspapers and paste them into an album. The hesitant advances made by Marí, a friend's sister, bounce off the mostly bad-tempered man. One day Roberto's monotonous life is mixed up. While he's having a picnic at the airport, the Chinese Jun is thrown out of a taxi near him. Roberto tries to help him, but Jun doesn't speak a word of Spanish. Roberto takes him in rather reluctantly, and when it turns out that he is looking for his uncle, he helps him find him. Since the uncle no longer lives at the address Jun knows, this is not easy. The police and the Chinese embassy prove to be unhelpful and Roberto's temper leads to difficulties over and over again.
Thanks to an Argentine-Chinese food courier who makes himself available as a translator, Roberto and Jun learn more about each other. Roberto tells how his experiences as a soldier during the Falklands War convinced him that life was completely meaningless. In order to document this, he collects the aforementioned newspaper clippings. He reads Jun from his collection the message with the cow that fell from heaven - and learns that this strange, tragic incident was the beginning of Jun's uprooting.
In the end, Jun finds his uncle and Roberto overcomes his bitterness.
Reviews
"Gradually, Sebastián Borenzstein's film (...) evolves from a somewhat schematic story in which opposing characters meet, to a subtle, melancholy tale about the imponderability of fate."
“ Un cuento chino , the Spanish title for Chinese takeaway, means something like fairy tale or a story of lies. With his film, Borensztein wants to tell a parable of loneliness, in which one can make oneself comfortable and thereby miss one's life. He would not have needed the harmless slapstick about the Chinese Jun to learn this lesson. "
“The cow falls. Fairy tales from Buenos Aires: Chinese take-away. "
“'Chinese take-away' offers just the right mix of melancholy emotions and black humor. Even if the story is thought-provoking, you are guaranteed to leave the cinema in a good mood. "
Others
- The end credits of the film show that the falling cow, which fell from a cargo plane onto a fishing boat, is based on a real occurrence. For this purpose, an excerpt from a news program is shown on television. However, this is a (false) report that actually found its way into the Argentine daily Clarín in 1997. Barbara Mikkelson traces the genesis of this newspaper duck on the “ Urban Legends Reference Pages” .
Web links
- Chinese takeaway in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chinese takeaway at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Chinese take-away . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 275 K).
- ↑ "Una vaca cayó del cielo y nos hundió el pesquero" report 1997 (accessed on January 26, 2016)
- ↑ Cow Tao , last update February 14, 2011 (accessed January 26, 2016).