Hot Soup

(2020)

★ 4.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2020

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: China

Director: Zhang Ming

Cast: Thomas Price, Yi Zuo, Ли Мэн, Чэнь Ду Лин, Чжаоянь Гочжан, 宋芳园, Wenyi Liu

Plot

Contemporary Shanghai. Four women are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend who meets her father's expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her. The respected director, winner of multiple awards at major international festivals, returns with an intricately structured story about the search for happiness.