It is hard to trust a cop in a noir.
This is still true in the U.K. trailer for Black Coal, Thin Ice. The film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last year and is starting to make its way to both U.K. and U.S. distributions. It comes from writer/director Diao Yinan.
The film follows an ex-cop who looks for redemption when a serial killer, at the heart of gruesome coal-plant murder he couldn’t solve years before, strikes again. It stars Liao Fan, Gwei Lun, Mei and Wang Xuebing.
Our own Neal Dhand caught the film at Tribeca and called it ‘a gorgeous, meticulous, wryly funny police critique couched in thriller terms.’
The first trailer seems to sell that idea also as the stylish film noir look seems to play well with this thrilling story. Yinan seems to have captured the despair in this character and it looks like a film to keep an eye out for when it comes to North America.
Black Coal, Thin Ice opens on June 5 in the U.K.
