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Screening of "Free and Easy" at the Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival
The Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival presents the LA premiere of Free and Easy, a film featuring various storylines revolving around crime.
Where
A crook visits a gloomy, snowbound town in northeast China bringing magic soap used to incapacitate the unaware so that he may rob them of money and property. A man is intent on re-uniting with his mother by meeting people through his religion. Two police officers set out to solve a case without any clues. A fake monk begins to work on the issue of solidarity through common pursuit. A forest ranger pursues a tree thief. In the midst of this, a murder takes place. Free and Easy is a farce in which crime is the new normal.
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