A woman's life is explored over three time periods in this Cannes Palme d'Or-nominated drama from acclaimed Chinese auteur Zhangke...
A woman's life is explored over three time periods in this Cannes Palme d'Or-nominated drama from acclaimed Chinese auteur Zhangke Jie (A Touch of Sin).
"China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society changing at breakneck speed." (Cannes Film Festival)
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88 %86 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
69 %691 reviewsAudience score rating
"The cumulative impact is still enormously touching, highlighted by Jia's rapturous image-making and a luminous central performance by the director's regular muse (and wife), Zhao Tao."
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Variety
Variety"It's an intelligent and intriguing meditation on issues concerning what it means to be Chinese in today's and tomorrow's world."
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Time Out
Time Out"Jia films these interlocking stories and their diverse tributaries with a bare and restrained simplicity that contains his many levels of rueful outrage."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"Few filmmakers working today look as deeply at the changing world as Mr. Jia does, or make the human stakes as vivid."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Jia Zhang-ke's Mountains May Depart is a mysterious and in its way staggeringly ambitious piece of work from a film-maker whose creativity is evolving before our eyes."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Like most of the indispensable Jia's work, this triptych film, which jumps from 1999 to 2014 and then to 2025, is intimately engaged in the push-pull between tradition and progress."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Jia Zhang-ke's... exploration of change, loss and regret has never felt more personal than in Mountains May Depart."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterMountains May Depart | Details
- Rating
- M, Low level offensive language
- Runtime
- 131
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- China, France, Japan
