![]() As Nana, Haofeng and Xiao meander through the next few days, so does the movie. “The Breaking Ice,” though, can’t be summed up in plot points. “How long have you been a tour guide?” he asks. Once on board he stands out because of his solitude, until he sits on a bench with Nana as she takes a cigarette break and starts a conversation that is as desultory as their lives seem to be. But he sees the bus from his perch above the hotel parking lot and decides to join the tour since he’s got an extra day before he needs to fly back to Shanghai. When Haofeng goes to the roof of the building and looks over the edge, it’s hard to imagine that he won’t jump – if not immediately, then eventually. ![]() He seems to be a wallflower and he’s continually getting calls from a mental health center saying he missed his last appointment. ![]() ![]() He’s at a traditional Korean wedding in Yanji, where half the population speaks Korean. The activity on the bus is intercut with a hotel banquet hall, where a young man, Haofeng (Chinese box-office star Liu Haoran), sits in front of a giant mural of a snowbound lake. ![]()
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