The World
Summary:
Chinese writer/director Jia Zhang Ke's The World is his fourth feature, but it's his first set in a major city, and the first film he's made with the cooperation of the Chinese government. The World is set at the eponymous amusement park in Beijing. Tao (Zhao Tao, who played the Mongolian King girl, Qiao Qiao, in Jia's Unknown Pleasures) is a dancer at the park, w... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Zhao Tao - (Tao)
Chen Taisheng - (Taisheng)
Jing Jue - (Xiaowei)
Jiang Zhong-wei - (Niu)
Wang Yi-qun - (Qun)
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Review:
Jia Zhang Ke's The World continues along the same path as Platform and Unknown Pleasures, but it's livelier. This gorgeous, profoundly melancholy distillation of contemporary China's precarious global position is his most accessible film to date. From the stunning opening tracking shot, in which Tao (Zhao Tao) glides through the b... Continue >>
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