Making one debut feature is hard enough, but Zhang has successfully enriched and deepened his themes—of performance, surveillance, sincerity, and exchange—by presenting these two parts in ambiguous relation to one another, with a playing order determined by the flip of a coin.
Lincoln Center delves into tales of the wicked, the outcast, the unholy, the misunderstood, and the freakish in a survey of the audacious director’s genre-busting and defining films.