Keep Cool (film)

Keep Cool simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Yu Ha Ho Ho Sho literally If you have something to say, say it nicely is a 1997 Chinese black comedy directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from the novel Evening Papers News by Shu Ping. The film about a bookseller in love in 1990s Beijing, marked a move away from earlier period pictures of Zhangs earlier work to a more realistic Cinma vritlike period in his career that also saw him make Happy Times 2000 and Not One Less 1999. Keep Cool also marked only the second time Zhang placed his film in the modern era and the first time Zhang did not work with actress Gong Li.

The film is set in contemporaneous Beijing. It begins with bookseller Zhao Xiaoshuai Jiang Wen who is following his exlover An Hong Qu Ying home, obviously after an unhappy and onesided breakup. He tracks the fastwalking An Hong on a bus and later on a bicycle, until she reaches her flat and goes up to her apartment. There, Zhao gets a junk peddler Zhang Yimou, the director himself, speaking in his native Shaanxi accent and another peddler to call out her name and declare his undying love to her at the highrise flats.The next day, the temperamental An Hong becomes impressed enough by Xiaoshuais efforts to take him up her apartment for a quickie, but their tryst is interrupted by another man Zhao Benshan downstairs, reciting some nonsensical poetry through a loudhailer. Apparently, the person is hired by the peddler Xiaoshuai hired the day before who has absconded from the job. Xiaoshuai tries unsuccessfully to get the man to stop, and in a huff the angered An Hong leaves her apartment. Xiaoshuai is baffled by his ex blowing hot and cold at him. ........

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