One Second

2020 [CHINESE]

Action / Comedy / Drama / History

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 75% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 3340 3.3K

based on novel or book

Plot summary

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Director

Yimou Zhang Photo
Yimou Zhang

Top cast

Yang Yu Photo
Yang Yu as Truck driver
Shaobo Zhang Photo
Shaobo Zhang as Little Boy Liu
Ziyue Tang Photo
Ziyue Tang as Young Bully
Bing Wang Photo
Bing Wang as Restuarant Waiter
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947.34 MB
1280*536
Chinese 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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947.65 MB
1280*534
Chinese 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 43 min
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1.9 GB
1920*804
Chinese 5.1
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Subtitles de   us   tr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1.72 GB
1920*800
Chinese 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cherold 7 / 10

interesting little movie

One Second is a small-town period piece about a rough man obsessed with seeing a stolen newsreel. When the newsreel is stolen by a young orphan girl he goes on the chase.The reasons are shown over time, but the thing you see right away is the importance of film in the movie's world. Townspeople are obsessed with movies, and theater owners are respected to a remarkable degree. Who knew?The film has an interesting structure - much of the middle is devoted to saving some damaged film, which is surprisingly absorbing, but other parts are pretty dramatic. And the central relationship between the man and the orphan girl is rather remarkable as it shifts and alters in ways that make sense even when they surprise.While I am more a fan of directory Yimou Zhang's blockbusters than of his smaller village-life movies , this is a genuinely enjoyable and affecting film that is well worth watching.
Reviewed by M0n0_bogdan 8 / 10

For the love of cinema!

In the last couple of month, or maybe the last year I have seen maybe 10 movies about famous directors love for the cinema...of course one of China's best will do the same. Love for the cinema with a bit of family dynamic sprinkled in.It is not as visually spectacular as other films from Zhang Yimou but it's still beautifully shot and the cinema scenes really have impact. To involve the entire village to clean up an entire reel that was dragged on the road, it was just not only very powerful chinese propaganda but also a very direct way for Yimou to show us how much he respects the film..and to present it all on the "silver" screen via back-light. Such a great couple of scenes.Yeah, a lot of it also reminded me of communist Romania and they way they all gathered at the films to mindlessly watch anything, even newsreels, all too familiar. Not for me, but from the stories I heard.
Reviewed by imursel 6 / 10

Daughters on the frame

Zhang Yimou, in general, is the director of the epical drammas. But all the while he manages to tell little stories with a certain cynicism and black humor. One second is one of these films that tells us a very cheerful story with touching tones of hearthwarming. The film is a kind of Chinese "Cinema Paradiso", which is full of love for cinema and for this seventh art. But Yimou not only speaks of love for cinema but also of a friendship and solidarity between a prisoner who has escaped from a concentration camp and a child that their friendship is in fact based on the roots about the interests of cinema. Despite all this good intention that the director wants to put forward, unfortunately the film is unable to end this brilliant idea with a decent final blow and leaves the spectator with a dry mouth disappointing and perplexed without giving the coup de grace that otherwise would have been a sensational ending. .
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