We did not expect to one day have to draw a comparison between the surrealist agitator Quentin Dupieux, the French director who shoots faster than his shadow (average pace: two films per year), and the discreet Anthony Chen, a Singaporean filmmaker who, like his characters, ignores vociferations and outbursts of voice. And yet, barely five months after discovering A winter in Yanjian intense fiction about three young characters lost in a town in northern China, the Asian director is already making his return with The escape.
