Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet) 2013

Li and the Poet

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Movie Info

A Chinese barmaid (Tao Zhao) and a Slavic fisherman (Rade Serbedzija) find friendship and more in an Italian fishing village.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Italian
Director:

Andrea Segre
Producer:

Francesca Feder, Francesco Bonsembiante
Writer:

Andrea Segre, Marco Pettenello
Release Date (Streaming):

May 9, 2017
Runtime:

1h 32m
Production Co:

Rai Cinema

Cast & Crew

Tao Zhao
Shun Li

Rade Serbedzija
Bepi

Marco Paolini
Coppe

Roberto Citran
Avvocato

Giuseppe Battiston
Devis

Giordano Bacci
Baffo

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Critic Reviews for Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet)

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (1)

The plot is preposterous, offering up not one, but two, saintly females for our hi falutin' delectation.

June 22, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Charlotte O'Sullivan
London Evening Standard
This is haunting and affecting with visual poetry to spare.

June 22, 2013 | Full Review…

Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
Shun Li and the Poet actually believes in the inherent decency of strangers. Don't hold that against it.

June 21, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Donald Clarke
Irish Times
There is much to savour in this poignant feature by the former documentary-maker Andrea Segre: not least its tough, uncliched view of Venice.

June 20, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
A discreetly epic observation of solitude and circumstance.

June 20, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Rebecca Ellis
Little White Lies
The film has a shiveringly lovely melancholic spirit that clings to your skin like wet jeans.

June 20, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Robbie Collin
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Segre's choice to tell a very personal story, and largely lap at the edges of the issues involved, makes for a wonderfully emotive voyage that works so well precisely because the current was not too strong.

February 26, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Ben Nicholson
CineVue
Francois Couturier's score is overly emphatic in places in tugging at our heartstrings, but the film's gentle humanity is to be cherished.

June 21, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tom Dawson
The List
Writer-director Segre gives this sensitive story a nicely understated quality that forces us to identify with the central characters in ways that continually catch us off guard.

June 20, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
Touching story about the tender friendship between a 60-year-old Yugoslav fisherman and an unmarried Chinese woman working in a local bar.

June 19, 2013 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice
Enjoyable and uplifting, Shun Li and the Poet is an engaging and heart-warming study of an unlikely friendship ...

June 19, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Jennifer Tate
ViewLondon
Shun Li and the Poet is a pensive and slow-burning production that will have you pondering over it for days.

June 19, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Stefan Pape
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Audience Reviews for Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet)

Sep 25, 2013

A beautiful ending still and some lovely landscape shots manages to more or less save a rather mediocre film.

William H Super Reviewer
Jun 25, 2012

What begins as an honest story soon becomes a frustrating experience, unable to generate enough interest due to the lack of chemistry between the two main characters. Besides, it insists on trying to create some visual and narrative poetry where there is none.

Carlos M Super Reviewer