UFO in their Eyes

A Corazon Intl. production in co-production with NDR/Arte in colaboration with Dorje Film. (Worldwide sales: the Match Factory, Perfume, Germany.) Produced by Klaus Maeck. Executive producer, Fatih Akin. Directed by Sabotage Sister also called Xiaolu Guo. Script, Guo, Pamela Casey, good novel by Guo.With: Shi Ke, Udo Kier, Mandy Zhang, Y. Peng Liu, Z. Lan, Massela Wei, Dou Li, Nan Zhou. (Mandarin, British dialogue)Xiaolu Guo won Locarno's Golden Leopard for "She, a Chinese" and acquired praise for docu "Not such a long time ago Proleterian," but her latest, "UFO In Their Eyes," crashes and burns on first contact. Intended just like a lampoon of China's hurry into Communist Party-approved capitalism, Guo's adaptation of her own novel is unfunny and slapdash throughout since it observes the fallout in the woman's UFO sighting inside an agrarian village. Beyond choose fests dedicated to showing Guo's films, pic might have handful of witnesses. Within a tryst along with her school headmaster, Lee (Z. Lan), Kwok (Shi Ke) thinks she sees a UFO, even though staging is actually vague and botched that may be anything. Taking her claim seriously, local Communist Party topper Chang (Mandy Zhang) stage-handles a deal to produce target the city she governs. Yank official Steve (a bizarrely cast Udo Kier) helps out, nevertheless the petty, jealous residents begin to resent Kwok. A TV crew, lensing for reasons uknown in black-and-white-colored, trespasses the loop in many kinds of inappropriate ways.Camera (color/B&W, widescreen), Michal Tywoniuk editor, Nikolai Hartmann music, Mocky production designer, Jun Yao. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema), Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 109 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com