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May 20, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Mountains May Depart’. Jia Zhangke paints a somber portrait of the capitalist-age Chinese family in a decades-spanning, continent-hopping epic. The cinema’s consummate ...
Watch Mountains May Depart | Netflix. The joys, hopes and sorrows of a Chinese woman's life play out against the backdrop of sweeping historical events from the past, present and future. Watch trailers & learn more.
Daniel Kasman 14 Mar 2019. Sean Gilman 05 Feb 2019. Fenyang, 1999: Tao has two suitors, Zhang and his best friend Liangzi. Tao decides, with a note of regret, to marry Zhang, an aspiring entrepreneur. Flash-forward 15 years, the couple’s son Dollar is paying a visit to his now-estranged mother and everyone has grown more distant in time and ...
May 20, 2015 · Mountains May Depart. Zhao Tao begins the movie as a girlish, ingenuous soul: always bouncing happily around, treating both her suitors with a kind of frank, sisterly affection while she ...
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 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.
May 21, 2015 · Zhangke’s always had a throughline regarding economic inequality and the 21st century-style Chinese capitalism in his work, but “Mountains May Depart” might be the director’s defining ...
Feb 12, 2016 · Mountains May Depart - Metacritic. Summary 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 Zhangke'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 ...
