The Summer Is Gone

2016

106 mins

Directed by Dalei Zhang
Drama

Drama from debut director Dalei Zhang that recalls a country boy’s last summer vacation before high school and before China's... More

Drama from debut director Dalei Zhang that recalls a country boy’s last summer vacation before high school and before China's economic reforms.

"Zhang Dalei laces his piquant recreation of the summer he was twelve with telling details of social upheaval that he was too young to comprehend at the time: China is welcoming in economic reforms, state companies are being privatised and his parents, their friends and neighbours must learn to fend for themselves in a world of free enterprise." (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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The Summer Is Gone | Ratings & Reviews

"With a maturity beyond his experience level, Zhang admires the past without revering it, with his filmmaking style, too, seeming to pay unassuming homage to the canon of great Chinese directors, while being dipped in a newness that is unique to him."

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Variety

"Zhang Dalei’s film is single-mindedly devoted to evoking the way a pre-adult mind compartmentalises the world."

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Slant Magazine

"[A] remarkably accomplished first feature..."

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Screen Daily

"...first-time director Zhang Dalei offers a subtle, poetic, if a bit overtly mellow reminiscence of his country's simpler, supposedly better days before rampant market-driven reforms took over."

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