Cliff Walkers has Zhang drawing on the "men in trenchcoats with guns" noir imagery of French director Jean-Pierre Melville for his first spy noir thriller.
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There are shades of French noir director Jean-Pierre Melville in the images here.
There was a teaser trailer released late last year when the movie was still called "Impasse."
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