Brief History Of A Family

After Wei, an outgoing athlete, accidentally injures his much poorer classmate Shuo, he invites the lonely boy home for dinner. It’s a gesture he may regret: Wei’s parents are moved by Shuo’s tragic childhood, cultured tastes and attentiveness to their inner lives – and a kind of transference takes place. With China’s one-child policy capping the number of children per family, they begin seeing Shuo as an improved version of their own son. Recalling Parasite and Saltburn, gifted first-time director Lin Jianjie’s interloper drama examines the family with icy dispassion, microscopically interested in urban loneliness and the desires we project onto others.

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