Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin (2013) is showing December 9 – January 7, 2019 and Walter Salles' Jia Zhang-ke, a Guy from Fenyang (2014) is showing December 10 – January 8, 2019 in the United States as part of the series Behind the Viewfinder.When Jia Zhangke was just a boy, his father took him to the top of the ancient wall surrounding their hometown of Fenyang, a small industrial backwater nestled in northern China. From those heights, Jia could see the entirety of the world available to so many young Chinese born in the shadow of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms: a cloistered one of poverty and toil. He could see his family’s home in Courtyard #5, the building with foot-thick concrete walls built as a prison but repurposed as apartments for laborers. He could see the two apple trees growing between the buildings, some of the sole surviving remnants of the...
- 12/11/2018
- MUBI
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