Recently, during his Golden Globes acceptance speech, filmmaker Bong Joon-ho explained that there is an entire world of incredible cinema out there for audiences to discover as long as they are willing to read subtitles. And as a reader of this website, you’re likely well aware of that. So, when someone tells you that the action-thriller genre of film doesn’t have anything new to offer, you should probably show them the trailer for “The Wild Goose Lake.”

In honor of “The Wild Goose Lake” beginning its theatrical run in March, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at the trailer for the noir action film from acclaimed filmmaker Diao Yinan.

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An overstuffed, stylish crime story about an unpredictable underground world, impressive visual poetry might be on display again in Yinan Diao’s “The Wild Goose Lake,” his latest action-noir, but narrative cohesion is sorely lacking. Following the visually-dazzling 2014 Berlinale-winning, “Black Coal, Thin Ice,” Diao’s most recent, ‘Goose Lake,’ is similarly themed. But it’s ultimately a less successful film with one almost entirely drowned by its overly-complicated and convoluted narrative about a gangster on the lam from both the cops and a rival gang.

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Is horror making its way to the Cannes Film Festival this year? Granted, for many of these films they exist only as a logline and one official image, but prestige horror is seemingly destined to make its mark on the usually sunny usually Croisette. Then again, rain is in the forecast.

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There are a number of interesting trends this year at the French event, including a trio of new American filmmakers in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, semi-old school Hollywood star power (Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sylvester Stallone), a slight increase in female directors in competition (a big ol’ four of them), and, as always, filmmakers the festival simply can’t say no too (Pedro Almodóvar, Xavier Dolan, Ken Loach, the Dardennes, etc.).

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