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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
If I leave you someday, would you look for me?
Yes
Would you look for me forever?
Yes
Your whole life?
Yes
You are lying
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From the first minute, Suzhou River sets off with this gloomy dialogue, presumably between the protagonists and hints at a story of unrequited love. We are then taken through Shanghai, with derelict buildings on either banks of a river the colour of an ailing city. Such is the setting for our tragic but captivating…