The Chinese Widow

So this is the film where wartime peril doubles as home renovation porn. After his plane goes down in 1941 China, an American bomber pilot is taken in by a widowed village woman whose hospitality extends to full structural fortification. It plays like a survival story interrupted by IKEA catalogs, but somehow keeps a straight face until the end.

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Bille August directed The Chinese Widow in 2017. See Bille August's full filmography, where to start with Bille August, or where to go after you've seen everything by Bille August.

The Chinese Widow was released in 2017 (ZH original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.