Glasgow Film Festival Red Amnesia

Newly added screening

Red Amnesia is a film that seems designed to catch you off guard. What begins as a benign portrait of a widow and her family gradually deepens to reflect the communal guilt that lingers from China’s Cultural Revolution. Deng (Zhong Lü) takes an active part in the lives of her grown sons and also cares for her elderly mother. She seems unremarkable until a stone is thrown through her window, the phone rings and nobody is there, and a young boy arrives. It appears that hidden events in her past have returned for a moment of reckoning in a brave, mysterious film in the tradition of Michael Haneke’s Hidden.