Fortune Teller is a very real, very gritty Chinese doco. when a colleague asked what i thought immediately after the film, i exhaled a hearty sigh of "fuuuck." it's not the kind of film one likes or doesn't like. i'm not even sure it's a film that does, or doesn't need to be seen. maybe that means it does, but it's so uncomfortable, i'm unable to admit it.
it's one year translated into 3 hours in the life of an aged, physically disabled, homeless fortune teller, and his developmentally challenged wife. (and for a while, until she disappears, a prostitute for whom he foresees a life of loneliness.) this is definitely not a feel-good movie, although i did leave feeling remarkably grateful for being a healthy, able-bodied Canadian living in a nice warm home in gorgeous, clean Vancouver...
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