Keep Cool
Director: Zhang Yimou
Genre: Black comedy, Comedy
Year: 1997
Language: Standard Mandarin
Starring: Ge You, Jiang Wen
Keep Cool (simplified Chinese: 有话好好说; traditional Chinese: 有話好好說; pinyin: Yǒu Hùa Hǎo Hǎo Shūo; literally "If you have something to say, say it nicely") is a 1997 Chinese black comedy directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from the novel Evening Papers News by Shu Ping. The film about a bookseller in love in 1990s Beijing, marked a move away from earlier period pictures of Zhang's earlier work to a more realistic Cinéma vérité-like period in his career that also saw him make Happy Times (2000) and Not One Less (1999). Keep Cool also marked only the second time Zhang placed his film in the modern era and the first time Zhang did not work with actress Gong Li.
The film was produced by the Guangxi Film Studio.
The film is set in contemporaneous Beijing and begins with a bookseller, Zhao Xiaoshuai (Jiang Wen), following his ex-lover An Hong (Qu Ying) home. He wants to know where she is living. He tracks her on a bus and then later on bicycle, until she reaches her apartment. There, he gets a junk peddler (Zhang Yimou) and another peddler to help him cry out her name and declare his love at the high-rise apartments.
The next day, An Hong becomes impressed enough by Xiaoshuai's efforts that
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