Keep Cool

Name: Keep Cool
Director: Zhang Yimou
Released: 1997-01-01

1997 film by Zhang Yimou

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Also known as You hua hao hao shuo (Keep Cool)

Released: 1997
Director: Zhang Yimou
Screenwriter: Shu Ping
Cast: Jiang Wen
, Ge You
, Qu Ying
, You Yong
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: comedy film
Country of origin: People's Republic of China
Original language: Mandarin

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Keep Cool is a 1997 Chinese black comedy film directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from the novel Evening Papers News by Shu Ping. The film, which is about a bookseller in love in 1990s Beijing, marked a move away from Zhang's earlier period pictures to a more realistic cinéma vérité-like era in his career that also saw him make Happy Times (2000) and Not One Less (1999). Keep Cool also marked only the third time Zhang placed his film in the modern era and the first time Zhang did not work with actress Gong Li.

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Director of photography: Lü Yue
Filming location: Beijing
Color: color
Narrative location: Beijing
Part of: fifth generation Chinese films
Film editor: Du Yuan

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