Caught by the Tides

Feng Liu Yi Dai

Jia Zhangke filters a prismatic contemplation of twenty-first century China’s seismic shifts through two decades of his own films, anchored by regular collaborator Tao Zhao.

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Credits

  • Director

    Jia Zhangke

  • Screenwriters

    Jia Zhangke, Wan Jianhuan

  • With

    Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin

  • China 2024. 111min

  • Courtesy of

    mk2 Films

  • Language

    Mandarin

    With English subtitles

Introduction

As if to prove there’s no finer cinematic chronicler of modern China, director Jia Zhangke repurposes his monumental oeuvre as a single entity. Blending documentary, previous features, musical numbers and multiple incarnations of regular star Zhao Tao, it’s an elusive love story and allusive national portrait, charting the path of a woman and a country through the ebb and flow of history’s tides.

Leigh Singer

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