The first American trailer has been unveiled for Zhang Yimou’s wacky-looking Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers’ debut feature “Blood Simple” that’ll explore the more comedic side of the story.
Retitled “A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop,” the film’s setting has also been transferred to the aesthetically beautiful desert where the lives of the leads circle around the titular noodle shop situated there. Like the original, though, the story will follow the husband’s plans to murder his adulterous wife and her lover; a scheme that goes quickly awry.
Reviews out in Berlin, where the film premiered to Western audiences, described the film as “a high-rolling but garish production with untranslatable regional ribald humor [that’s] aimed squarely at the China market, where the genre of ‘e gao’ (comic brawls and rascally high jinks) is all the rage.” There’s also mention of our previously-revealed musical contribution by Yimou with a “group hip-hop dance routine accompanied by Zhang Yimou’s rap song in his native Shaanxi dialect.” Crazy enough to work?
The film will see a limited release in LA/NY beginning September 3rd. [SPC]