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Sep 11, 2017 · Following a Chinese teenager recently arrived in Buenos Aires, THE FUTURE PERFECT speaks to the alienation of a new environment. Read our Notebook Close-Up of the film here: https://mubi.io...
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- MUBI
Sep 15, 2017 · The Future Perfect: Directed by Nele Wohlatz. With Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart. A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.
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- Drama
- Nele Wohlatz
- 2017-09-15
Sep 15, 2017 · The Future Perfect —pleasingly compact at 65 minutes and the winner of the Swatch First Feature prize in Locarno last year—is the work of Nele Wohlatz, a German filmmaker working in Argentina.
A Chinese girl emigrates to Argentina. Unable to speak Spanish, she works in a Chinese grocery store to raise money for language lessons.
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- Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang
- Nele Wohlatz
- Drama
Sep 13, 2017 · In “The Future Perfect,” which Wohlatz helped write, the heroine, Xiaobin (Xiaobin Zhang), moves from China to Buenos Aires at age 18, to meet the parents she’s never known. They immigrated...
- Nele Wohlatz
Mar 7, 2017 · German director Nele Wohlatz’s The Future Perfect addresses the increasingly complicated challenges of intercultural communication. Divided into three parts with each meant to correlate with the linguistic structure of past, present, and future, the film chronicles Xiaobin (Xiaobin Zhang), a Chinese teenager trying to learn enough ...
The Future Perfect is a deceptively simple film whose clever structural conceit deepens our understanding of Xiaobin, a young Chinese immigrant in Argentina just beginning to learn Spanish.
