By Amy Renner May. 11, 2023
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Only the River Flows
Set in the 1990s, Banpo Town, rural China. A woman's body is found by the river. Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), Chief of the Criminal Police, heads up the murder investigation that quickly leads to an obvious arrest. His superiors hurry to congratulate him and urge him to close the case and move on, but several clues push Ma Zhe to delve deeper into the hidden behavior of his fellow citizens. Based on a short story by Yu Hua, the film is about a homicide detective investigating a series of murders in a rural village.