Touch of Sin
A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China, ‘A Touch of Sin’ is at once monumental and human scale.
A Touch of Sin
A "brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China" (Jon Frosch, The Atlantic), A TOUCH OF SIN was inspired by four shocking (and true) events that forced the world's fastest growing economy into a period of self-examination.
Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), "one of the best and most important directors in the world" (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.
An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption in his village, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist, who dates a married man and works at a local sauna, is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. And a young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading circumstances.
“A bitter, brutal, often brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China.” (Jon Frosch
The Atlantic)
Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), "one of the best and most important directors in the world" (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.
An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption in his village, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist, who dates a married man and works at a local sauna, is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. And a young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading circumstances.
“A bitter, brutal, often brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China.” (Jon Frosch
The Atlantic)
Genre
Drama
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Runtime
125
Language
Mandarin
Director
Jia Zhangke
Cast
Zhao Tao,
Jiang Wu,
Wang Baogiang
Awards:
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Calum Marsh, Film.com
The cinema is well-equipped to respond to corruption and oppression, whether its powers are channelled into disconsolate sighs of resignation—as in Jafar Panahi’s forlorn act of protest “Closed Curtain”, another of this year’s TIFF highlights—or marshaled toward something more fierce, like Jia ...
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