‘Diary of a Mad Old Man’ Review: Wayne Wang and Fan Bingbing Unintentionally Find the Boredom in Sex and Death

Given its premise — a post-stroke retiree derives intersexual pleasance from his daughter-in-law — the perverse qualities of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s classical “Diary of a Mad Old Man” are plentiful. But by the standards of modern mores, the 1961 caller isn’t peculiarly explicit; successful his archetypal diagnostic since 2019, Wayne Wang initially takes a antithetic approach, […]