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Cannes Film Review: 'Summer of Changsha'

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Chinese actor Zu Feng directs himself in his slickly packaged but frustratingly morose cop procedural debut.
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Chinese actor Zu Feng makes a professional, polished but overly cautious directorial debut with “Summer of Changsha,” a dour police procedural wrapped around an even more dour romance that seems to exist to make the point that no good deed goes unpunished in our modern, alienated world.

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