Mountains May Depart
August Auteurs
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2h 6m
Directed by Zhangke Jia • Drama • 2015 • China, France, Japan • English, Cantonese, Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Sylvia Chang
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 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, and love.
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