Feng Xiaogang's I Know Who You Are opens July 3 via China Lion, and it earns your attention.
Set on the day of China's 1949 Founding Ceremony, the film follows Xiao Dali, a newly appointed police chief who becomes convinced that a mild-mannered schoolteacher named Feng Jingbo is a spy. What begins as suspicion becomes a 40-year obsession. Lei Jiayin plays the cop with granite certainty. Hu Ge, who brought quiet menace to Diao Yinan's The Wild Goose Lake at Cannes, is perfectly cast as the teacher who may or may not have a secret.
Adapted from Zhang Ce's 1992 novella, the film carries a 7.5 on Douban and earned over $14 million in China. That audience gave it a long look and liked what they saw.
If you follow international cinema or love a slow-burn character study, this one is worth finding.
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