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06/13/2013 "Ma, you should liberate your thoughts!" "You should try self-criticism!" "People can work in those pants?" "I'm an art-worker--no manual work." "You sound more like a capitalist roader." I don't think there's a greater living film-maker, with a greater contemporary subject-matter, than Jia Zhang Ke. And this is a more poignant and even epic coming-of-age film than the best such Hollywood movies. See more 08/22/2012 One of those movies which hypnotize and suck the viewer into a world of it's own... After the first few reels, it feels almost like living and growing up through the cultural changes in China... See more 04/29/2012 Follows a group of young 20-somethings in the early 80s as China undergoes a cultural shift. This is one of the hardest kinds of films to make successfully--that of a generation and a town stuck and going nowhere--and the director can't pull it off entirely without some of that boredom seeping into the audience. See more 02/14/2012 Great bit of story telling from Zhang Ke Jia. It is a depiction of China in a moment of transition moving from Mao to the free market beliefs of his successors. Through the eyes of a theatre troupe, it is compelling film making. See more 07/02/2011 Watching felt like homework. See more 06/04/2011 Spanning from 1979 to 1990, Jia's film tackles the sociocultural changes in China that followed the Open Door policy of the 1980s by tracing the lives of a group of performers in a Cultural Troupe (from peasant songs to breakdance electronic). Although we stick with a few principals, the long shot long take method makes them less the focus than the surrounding context, thereby underscoring the larger theme of cultural change and its impact. Impressively, the effects wrought by time are not highlighted by the director but occur more subtly as outside influences on fashion, music, and lifestyle creep in. See more Read all reviews

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