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"Mainland Chinese helmer Wang Chao finally attains an almost perfect balance between style and content in Luxury Car, a tightly written and beautifully played drama centered on a karaoke bar escort girl and her elderly father who visits from the sticks," writes Variety's Derek Elley.

Updated through 5/27.

But the Hollywood Reporter's Duane Byrge harrumphs, "Predictable and narratively uninspired, this Un Certain Regard entrant is unlikely to generate interest beyond its homeland."

Update, 5/27: Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: "Although Luxury Car is a small and not amazingly ambitious film, it works wonderfully."

Posted by dwhudson at May 24, 2006 4:27 AM