Angels Wear White

Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu’s gripping second feature is a tightly controlled, noirish thriller that struck a timely chord with the emerging #MeToo movement. Wen Qi stars as Mia, a 15-year-old hotel worker in a sleepy beach town who faces tough moral choices after witnessing a sexual assault on two underage girls. Because Mia has shaky legal status as an undocumented migrant worker, and the male suspect has powerful government connections, the odds are heavily stacked against justice prevailing in a rigged, sexist system. Qu’s prizewinning depiction of contemporary Chinese society is quietly furious, with a biting political subtext.