Opening in China on International Women’s Day, Vivian Qu's 'Girls on Wire' has a solid story, but falls back on cheap tricks and broad stereotypes.

In Vivian Qu's third feature, two estranged cousins confront old wounds after they are reunited under dangerous and dramatic circumstances.

Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu's genre hybrid, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living in the margins that fuses gangster realism with social drama and leavens both with a dash of unexpected humor.