Mountains May Depart
Mountains May Depart | |
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Directed by | Jia Zhangke |
Written by | Jia Zhangke |
Produced by | Ren Zhonglun Nathanaël Karmitz Liu Shiyu Shozo Ichiyama |
Starring | Zhao Tao Zhang Yi Liang Jingdong Dong Zijian |
Release dates |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
Countries | China France Japan |
Language | Mandarin |
Box office | CN¥32.22 million (China) US$79,768 (United States)[1] |
Mountains May Depart (Chinese: 山河故人) is a 2015 drama film directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is Jia's eighth feature film.[3][4] It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6] It has also been selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[7] It was released in China on 30 October 2015.[2]
Plot
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The film has three parts, set in 1999, 2014 and in Australia in the year 2025, respectively.[8]
Cast
- Zhao Tao[8]
- Zhang Yi
- Liang Jingdong
- Dong Zijian
- Sylvia Chang
- Rong Zishan
- Liang Yonghao
- Liu Lu
- Yuan Wenqian
Reception
Box office
The film earned CN¥32.22 million at the Chinese box office.[2]
Critical reception
Mountains May Depart holds a 79/100 average on review aggregation site Metacritic.[9] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, "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."[10]
Scott Foundas of Variety states "Mountains May Depart is never less than a work of soaring ambition and deeply felt humanism, as Jia longs not so much to turn back the hands of time, but to ever so slightly slow them down."[11]
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave it a 5 out of 10, calling the film a "weakly written saga of friendship [that] goes way off the rails in the final part."[12]
Music
- Go West (1993) by the Pet Shop Boys (in the first and last scenes)[13]
- Take care (Chinese: 珍重, 1990) by Sally Yeh (Chinese: 葉倩文)[13]
References
- ^ "Mountains May Depart". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d "山河故人(2015)". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ "山河故人 (2015)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ Kevin Ma (13 February 2015). "Shanghai Film Group reveals forthcoming projects". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "2015 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ^ "Screenings Guide". Festival de Cannes. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Toronto to open with 'Demolition'; world premieres for 'Trumbo', 'The Program'". ScreenDaily. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ a b Patrick Frater (19 May 2014). "China's Jia Zhangke Plans 'Mountains' Trek (EXCLUSIVE)". variety.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "Mountains May Depart Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ^ Peter Bradshaw (20 May 2015). "Mountains May Depart review: Jia Zhang-ke scales new heights with futurist drama". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ Scott Foundas (19 May 2015). "Cannes Film Review: 'Mountains May Depart'". Variety. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ Derek Elley (21 May 2015). "Mountains May Depart". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ a b Template:Fr Antoine Duplan, "« Au-delà des montagnes » : l’argent ne fait pas le bonheur de la Chine", Le Temps, Tuesday 26 January 2016 (page visited on 3 February 2016).
External links
- 2015 films
- Chinese film stubs
- 2010s French film stubs
- 2010s Japanese film stubs
- 2010s drama films
- Chinese drama films
- Chinese films
- Films directed by Jia Zhangke
- Films set in 2025
- Films set in the 1990s
- Films set in Australia
- Films set in China
- Films shot in Australia
- French drama films
- French films
- Japanese films
- Japanese drama films