1984 British film
Chinese Boxes |
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Directed by | Chris Petit |
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Written by | L. M. Kit Carson Chris Petit |
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Produced by | Chris Sievernich |
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Starring | Will Patton Robbie Coltrane |
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Cinematography | Peter Harvey |
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Edited by | Fred Srp |
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Music by | Günther Fischer |
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Production companies | |
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Distributed by | Palace Films |
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Release date |
- November 29, 1984 (1984-11-29) (United Kingdom)
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Running time | 87 minutes |
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Countries | United Kingdom West Germany |
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Language | English |
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Chinese Boxes is a 1984 British-West German crime mystery thriller film directed by Chris Petit and starring Will Patton and Robbie Coltrane.[1][2] The film was partially German funded.[3]
Plot
Cast
Production
Filming for Chinese Boxes was filmed in East Berlin during 1984. The film's score was composed by a Stasi informer who also lived in East Berlin.[4]
Release
Chinese Boxes premiered on 29 November 1984 in the United Kingdom.[citation needed] Years later the movie was screened in 2013 as part of Petit's Museum of Loneliness project, also in the United Kingdom.[5]
Reception
Critical reception was generally favorable.[6] Derek Malcolm reviewed Chinese Boxes for The Guardian, commenting that it "looks good and is at least lively".[7] The Independent remarked that the movie was "a quintessential Eighties riddle-thriller with a hint of Godard's Made in USA in its comic-strip flatness: it features a showdown in a paper-pulping yard, a foretaste of Petit's later preoccupation with pulped and discarded culture."[8]
Chinese Boxes has also received a 2013 review from Chris Darke in Sight & Sound.[9]
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