Mystery

"Mystery" (浮城谜事, 2012) — watch online on iFILM — a Chinese-French neo-noir directed by Lou Ye, the filmmaker behind "Blind Massage."

Lu Jie glimpses her husband leaving a hotel with another woman. Hours later, that woman is found dead beneath a car, and the detective on the case doesn't buy the accident theory. Lou Ye isn't building a whodunit — he's tracking the precise moment a marriage begins to collapse from within. Hao Lei plays Lu Jie with an almost wordless stillness that carries more than any monologue. The handheld camera and fractured chronology turn what could be a straightforward crime plot into something closer to slow asphyxiation. Stream "Mystery" (2012) online on iFILM.