Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2018 • China
Starring Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Diao Yinan
Visionary director Jia Zhangke’s mesmerizing, decade-plus spanning journey through China’s criminal underworld features a tour-de-force performance from his frequent star Zhao Tao as Zhao Qiao, the swaggering girlfriend of low-level gangster Guo Bin (Liao Fan). Upon her release from a five-year prison sentence for protecting him in a fight, she finds herself navigating life in a rapidly changing, turn-of-the-millennium China—visualized by Jia as a landscape of surreal, almost science-fiction strangeness—as she embarks on an odyssey to reconnect with Bin. But what will she find? And who can she trust?
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Xiao Shan Going Home
Directed by Jia Zhangke • 1995 • China
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Revive
Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2017 • China
Starring Zhao Tao, Liang JingdongJia Zhangke’s contribution to the omnibus feature WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE? follows a couple contemplating whether to have another child in the wake of the Chinese government’s newly established second-child policy.
