Mountains May Depart

Directed by Jia Zhangke

Release Year: 2015

Running time: 131

Country: Japan, France, China

Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, English

Genres: World Cinema , Family , Drama , Culture , Cannes Film Festival , World Cinema , RT Certified Fresh

Subjects: Asian Studies , Asian Cinema & Culture , Art, Design & Architecture , 21st Century Politics

Description

Directed by: Jia Zhangke

Writer: Jia Zhangke

Cast: Sylvia Chang, Dong Zijian, Liang Jingdong, Zhang Yi, Zhao Tao

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Reviews & Awards

Reviews

"Essential viewing...Mr. Jia takes the pulse of China." -Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

"Blew us away from the get-go." -Amy Taubin, Film Comment

"Staggeringly ambitious piece of work from a filmmaker who creativity is evolving before our eyes." -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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