Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice — winner of the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlinale — is a brooding Chinese neo-noir where a disgraced ex-cop investigates a string of dismemberment murders linked to an enigmatic woman. Set against the bleak industrial north, the film blends crime mystery, psychological tension, and existential melancholy, reviving classic noir style within contemporary Chinese society.

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An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.