Kaili Blues
2015
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Feb 17, 2016 · Berlin Film Review: ‘Crosscurrent’. Yang Chao's gorgeously shot meditation on the Yangtze River all but drowns in pretentious symbolism and philosophical musings. An ode to the Yangtze River ...
Oct 27, 2016 · Qin Hao in “Crosscurrent,” a symbolic drama that is a meditation on the costs of China’s economic rebirth. Cheng Cheng Films. Buckling beneath the weight of its director’s ambitions, Yang ...
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Crosscurrent is not for everyone. But patient viewers will be rewarded with a moving journey of two people set adrift in the world. Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 26, 2019. Anne Brodie ...
- Trying to Be Poetic…
- …But Falling Flat
- Crosscurrent: A Grand Anti-Climax
Yang Chao’s Crosscurrents attempts to outline its central themes on ambiguous terms and a structure that wants to flow like poetry. It even uses poetry as the marker of each “chapter” of its journey. It’s an intriguing concept of a film, focusing on the travels of a local shipping captain named Gao Chun (Hao Qin) upstream on the Yangtze river who, ...
We don’t know how much time exactly passes from one stop to the other and we don’t really have a sense of direction. In a sequence in a pagoda, Gao Chun follows heavenly voices up the stairs only to realize the conversation was happening below him. The monk informs him that’s the way sound works in a pagoda. His mis-communications with the mysterio...
The direction of the journey doesn’t match the aimlessness of the movie’s central point. It’s not a sin to have a movie that doesn’t lead anywhere, but Crosscurrentsis constantly indicating a direction to follow along to. Gao Chun finds bits and pieces here and there, clues strewn throughout his journey to lead him to a greater purpose that simply ...
Crosscurrent (film) Crosscurrent. (film) Crosscurrent ( Chinese: Chang Jiang Tu) is a 2016 Chinese drama film directed by Yang Chao. [3] It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. [4] At Berlin Mark Lee Ping-Bing won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography.
Feb 15, 2016 · 'Crosscurrent': Berlin Review. By Lee Marshall 2016-02-15T21:30:00+00:00. ... An almost drama-free film whose Berlinale press screening prompted a steady leak of walkouts, ...
Feb 15, 2016 · These have been written by some long-gone deckhand who voiced his melancholy and feelings of despair in a secret diary. When Chun stumbles across the hand-written book, he is captivated by its ...
