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Caught by the Tides filmmaker Jia Zhangke will introduce the May 2 screening at the Laemmle Glendale.
Caught By the Tides
An achievement by turns fleeting and monumental: a series of interlocking time capsules, a wrenching feat of self-reflection, and a stealth musical.
Caught By the Tides
The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies, unused scenes, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Caught by the Tides is a free-flowing work of unspoken longing, carried along more by music than dialogue as it looms around the edges of a poignant love story. The film mostly adheres to the perspective of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse, Zhao Tao) as she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of long-lost lover Bin (Li Zhubin), who left their home city of Datong seeking new financial prospects. The always captivating Zhao carries the film with her delicate expressiveness, while Jia constantly evokes cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change: of people, landscapes, cities, politics, ideas.
Genre
Drama,
Women and Film,
Auteur Cinema
Runtime
111
Language
Mandarin,
Chinese
Director
Jia Zhangke
Writer(s)
Jiahuan Wan,
Jia Zhang-ke
Cast
Zhao Tao,
Li Zhubin
Awards:
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Opening at
Glendale on May 2nd
Royal on May 16th
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