Chinese Take-Away 2011 123movies

Watch: Un cuento chino 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Buenos Aires, the bitter and methodic Roberto is a lonely man and the owner of a hardware store. Roberto collects bizarre worldwide news in an album as a hobby and his acquaintance Mari has an unrequited love for him, but Roberto is always evasive. One day, Roberto sees a Chinese named Jun being expelled from a taxi while he is watching the landing of airplanes in the airport and he helps the man to stand up. Jun does not speak Spanish and shows a tattoo with an address on his arm. Roberto heads to the spot with Jun and discover that the place belonged to Jun’s uncle that sold it three and half years ago. Roberto goes with Jun to the police station, to the China’s embassy and to a Chinese neighborhood to seek out his uncle but it is a fruitless search. Roberto lodges Jun in his house and after a series of incidents, he finds a delivery boy to translate Jun and he learns the dramatic story of his life..
Plot: A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 18,623
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 335 Popularity: 7.549 | TMDB

Reviews:

Beautiful and touching story
I really enjoyed this Argentinian comedy-drama movie about a solitary man that aids an indigent Chinese man that arrives in his country and speaks no word of Spanish! It’s quite a beautiful and touching story mostly because of the way it develops and helps both men finding their way to happiness. It’s told in the beginning that this story is based on true events. If so, it’s even better and interesting.

Roberto (played by Ricardo Darín) is a solitary man that lives in a poor house and owns a small shop. He’s very methodic and has some strange habits and hobbies. For instance, he shuts down the light before sleep everyday on 23pm, o’clock, on the precise second (!) and collects bizarre and absurd true stories he cuts from newspapers (I also appreciated the way those stories are told in the film: Roberto imagines the story as he was there and assumes the character of that little story, like Amélie Poulain in AMÉLIE ). But his live is not easy. He’s afraid to release his feelings and emotions and he’s very closed and linked to the past. At the same time he’s very honest, has a strong personality and is a person with great moral values. Precisely what will make him rescue Juan, the lost Chinese man (played by Ignacio Huang) and help him against everything, even other Chinese people, who are unwilling to aid Juan (by the way it’s hilarious the scene when they go to a Chinese neighborhood in Buenos Aires and when Juan starts speaking in Chinese, to his compatriot, the other man says in Spanish – “I don’t understand him!! He’s talking in Cantonese and I speak Mandarin! It’s a different language!” AHAH! Of course he’s right but the situation is hilarious and priceless!). So, it’s for this man, with such noble character, that Mari (Muriel Santa Ana), a friend and neighbor of Roberto, will fall in love. But he seems to not care, he seems to be afraid of her or maybe he’s just afraid of himself However, helping Juan Roberto will help himself too as we will see in the end of the film. I don’t use to appreciate beautiful and happy endings but here I did! I really enjoyed the way this film ended, especially because what it meant to Roberto and to the way his life turned around!

This film is delicious by its humor, its drama and also because of all those little circumstances portrayed, that can really happen to every one of us and change our lives!

Well-Shot and Well-Directed
And that’s about all I can say about it.

Roberto picks up a Chinese man who left his country and ran off to Argentina somehow without any plan and without knowing anyone for no reason.

This man is portrayed as extremely dumb, often giving loads of dialogue in Chinese knowing that no one can understand him and having left his country with the address of some relative tattooed on his arm and nothing more – you know we have phones these days…

I will give the film credit for portraying the spanish-speaking Chinese people as “normal” members of Argentine society, though. That is to say, at least not every Asian in the film is an idiot barbarian.

Ricardo is a gruff loner but somehow a local woman seems to be very interested in him and pursues him aggressively despite the fact that he keeps rejecting her brusquely. OK.

He doesn’t like the Chinese guy staying with him – we never see why because the Chinese guy seems to be very helpful and polite, but I guess few people would enjoy living with a stranger, even if a pleasant one. Yet he keeps on kicking him out and going back to find him.

The authorities are the real villains in this film, with the police and members of the embassy absolutely demonized by the film.

Ultimately shot and directed in a pretty way but an empty-headed character study of this anti-social guy. Barely worth a watch. Disappointing because the plot sounded so good.

Honourable Mentions: Heidi: Girl of the Alps (1974). The greatest TV show of all time and basically a similar plot as this one – gruff grandfather has his granddaughter foisted on her and it changes him.

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min) (Argentina)
Budget 5000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Sebastián Borensztein
Writer Sebastián Borensztein
Actors Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu
Country Argentina, Spain
Awards 12 wins & 19 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red Epic
Laboratory Cinecolor S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Digital
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm