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After the rather intriguingly erotic “White River”, Ma Xue returns with a completely different movie, “Sonata Wave” which shares some cheeky similarities with its predecessor, namely in the names of the characters, but moves into rather different paths, definitely less surrealistic and definitely not erotic.

Sonata Wave is screening at Jeonju International Film Festival

Wanan, the utopia of surfing enthusiasts, a relatively unknown place, is the basis of the story. Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop there by the sea, where eventually the protagonist of the movie, Xiao Fang, starts working. The young man, however, seems to be on the run from himself, not being able to move beyond his grief and guilt for an accident that took place with his friend when he was still in school. He spends his days doing nothing outside of working, essentially just waiting for time to pass, with no particular purpose. Things change,...