The story of a cab driver who, one day, meets a young provincial girl lost in the city.
Immediately, he decides to protect her and take her into his home. Little by little, unconsciously, his paternal affection is transformed into intense desire.
But, unable to break his ties, he transforms this desire into something impossible.
The repression of his desire, the lack of a solution to his conflict, leads him to the limits of himself: masochism and death drives assail him. Castration as regression to his original indeterminacy presents the mythical solution, where pain and happiness, life and death, cease to be perceived as contradictory.
“The Chinese Shoe” is an excessive tale, innocent and perverse at the same time, in which the two characters, who seem to me to have the same temperament, are embedded in repressed cultural mechanisms. The film’s theme could be the return to the origin, the journey into the undifferentiated, extended to various formal levels…” Christian Sanchez
