Directed by Jia Zhangke
New England premiere | China, France, Japan | 2018 | 137 min. | Chinese, Mandarin with subtitles
Zhangke (Mountains May Depart, BWF2017) continues his body of work as a recorder of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations with this melodrama that unfolds over 15 years. A woman serves a five year prison sentence after taking the fall for her mobster boyfriend. After her release she goes in search of him to pick up where they left off. An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
Speaker: Alex Desforges, Associate Professor of Chinese at UMass Boston, who specializes in Chinese language and literature, comparative literature, film, and culture.
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