First press reactions for THE WILD GOOSE LAKE by Diao Yinan -in competition

SCREEN
"Hyper-stylish manhunt drama laces slow-burn atmospherics with abrupt outbursts of staccato action"
"A significant crossover with serious export potential"  
(The Wild Goose Lake' lands second on Screen's Cannes jury grid)

INDIEWIRE
"Diao Yinan's latest noir contains enough flashes of brilliance to certify him as a major filmmaker"
"Diao could out-Refn the Neon Demon himself any day of the week"
"A master of cinematic suggestion and a painter of unscreen space"

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"A bleak and sharply made film noir set in gritty modern China."
"Each action scene allows Diao to make excellent use of his diverse range of locations"

HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE
"One of the most visually inventive, brilliantly choreographed noir thrillers I’ve ever seen…I probably haven’t felt this knocked out, this on-the-floor, this “holy shit”-ified by sheer directorial audacity since Alfonso Cuaron‘s Children of Men…It is so deliciously composed, such an audacious high-wire act."
"There’s simply no question that Diao, 48, is a flat-out cooking genius — a master of atypical framing and selective cutting, ultra-inventive action choreography, imaginative use of shadows and silhouettes. He’s a major arthouse director working with the confines the action genre, and at the same time breaking out of the bonds of that genre and almost setting it free."