Violet Du Feng’s The Dating Game premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Photo: Wei Gao The colorful, almost exuberant surfaces of Violet Du Feng’s The Dating Game mask a grim, dystopian reality. Following the efforts of three youngish bachelors to learn how to attract women under the tutelage of a professional dating coach, the documentary (which premiered at Sundance) offers a unique, ground-level perspective on a sad social phenomenon: Nearly a decade after the end of China’s One-Child