Chinese puzzle

“I am used to working with small budgets, but financing the movie felt like solving a Chinese puzzle,” says Ben Hania.

Because they were bias-cut, as Mr. Mackie explained in an interview, “they open like a Chinese puzzle and cup at the knee, holding you in.”

Only Eculent has a Chinese puzzle box hiding utensils, though, and a faux bookcase from which dessert and coffee are hydraulically delivered.

The movie is definitely a kind of Chinese puzzle box.

You wondered how the five people had been introduced into the place, as if it were a Chinese puzzle.