Director: Jia Zhangke IFFR 2019 review 2015’s Mountains May Depart was a fine work by the standards of any filmmaker, but while the decades-spanning melodrama marked another step forward in narrative and technical ambition for Jia Zhangke, it […]
Jia Zhangke
By Jessica Duncanson As part of the so-called ‘Sixth Generation’ of Chinese filmmakers, Jia Zhangke has been a key figure in the realist film movement. Having begun his career in the mid-90s, his films have […]
Directed by Jia Zhangke London Film Festival review Ever since the Chinese auteur’s poignant and delightfully lo-fi 1997 debut Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket), Jia Zhangke’s narrative features have been operating on a consistent four or […]
Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d say he practices […]