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Film Info
2004
139 mins
Color
China
In Mandarin and Shanxi dialect with English subtitles
35mm
Aspect ratio: Cinemascope (2.35:1)
Sound: Dolby SR
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Reviews
"The best new film I saw anywhere in 2004!"
-Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
"After three underground productions, Jia Zhangke goes global. The latest dispatch from the world's greatest filmmaker under 40 revisits the themes of UNKNOWN PLEASURES and PLATFORM: a hesitant romance, the growing pains of modernization, the urge for flight in a culture of inertia. Jia's rootless young adults are finally in the big city--and in a dizzying Baudrillardian irony, employed at a Beijing theme park that, with its replicas of global tourist attractions, promises 'a new world every day.' From the sensational opening tracking shot to the flurry of animated punctuation, Jia's first government-sanctioned film is his most flamboyant yet.
-Dennis Lim, THE VILLAGE VOICE
"FIVE STARS! Jia Zhangke's brilliant film finds truth in delusion."
-Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY (Toronto)
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