In writer and director Jianjie Lin's feature debut, we are welcomed into a middle-class family's home through the eyes of an outsider after an incident at school brings two students together. No doubt Brief History of a Family will come with many Saltburn comparisons as the film centers around the idea of an intruder slowly embedding himself into a family, but that might be both giving Brief History of a Family too much credit and not enough. Subdued and minimal, Lin's eye focuses on the family in question rather than the newcomer and gives us an intimate look at this modern Chinese family.
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