A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.Read More »
Tao Zhao
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Zhangke Jia – Sanxia haoren AKA Still Life (2006)
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Zhangke Jia – Shijie AKA The World (2004)
2001-2010ArthouseChinaDramaZhangke JiaShijie (2004)
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Jia Zhang Ke’s The World continues along the same path as Platform and Unknown Pleasures, but it’s livelier. This gorgeous, profoundly melancholy distillation of contemporary China’s precarious global position is his most accessible film to date. From the stunning opening tracking shot, in which Tao (Zhao Tao) glides through the backstage of the eponymous amusement park, loudly asking for a Band-Aid, Jia cannily conflates the magical and the prosaic. The World may end with a whimper, but it certainly starts with a bang. That opening immediately establishes a strong sense of community, but by the end of the film, we learn that among the working class in contemporary Beijing, the bonds of friendship and romance are ephemeral by necessity. Read More » -
Zhangke Jia – Jiang hu er nv AKA Ash Is Purest White (2018) (HD)
2011-2020ChinaDramaRomanceZhangke JiaSet in China’s underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows Qiao, a dancer who fires a few warning shots during a fight and then, after lying to protect her gangster lover Bin from a long prison sentence, ends up in jail herself. When she’s released five years later into a changed world, she goes in search of Bin, who has been mysteriously silent during her imprisonment…Read More »
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Zhangke Jia – Shan he gu ren AKA Mountains May Depart (2015)
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The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.Read More »