The Shadowless Tower

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The Shadowless Tower

Released Mar 15

2h 24m

Drama

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Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover. While the seasons come and go, people get together and move apart. Only one thing will remain the same: The White Pagoda where they all meet sooner or later...

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

There’s a rich quietude at work in “The Shadowless Tower,” which makes one realize how that virtue varies from filmmaker to filmmaker.

Apr 1, 2024

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Justin Chang

NPR

Most of us realize, sooner or later, that we're more like our parents or other family members than we care to admit. But the movie articulates that truth with a gentleness that can take your breath away...

Mar 22, 2024

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Manohla Dargis

New York Times

This movie opens itself to you with its feeling for people, its grace notes and a few bravura moments that close the distance between characters beautifully.

Mar 14, 2024

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Charles Lyons-Burt

Spectrum Culture

Character motivations and plot threads are left semi-unresolved and nebulously defined, but enough crystallizes that the film amounts to a moving story of a man slowly reengaging.

Mar 20, 2024

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Moving somewhere between Edward Yang and Hong Sang-soo, “The Shadowless Tower” is an intensely art-house movie, both beautiful and meaningful, but also addressed solely to fans of the particular cinema.

Rated: 6.5

Dec 17, 2023

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Michael Sicinski

In Review Online

But like the best “novelistic” films... The Shadowless Tower communicates complex states of being through framing, camera movement, and the accretion of detail over time.

Oct 13, 2023

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Lu Zhang

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Xin Baiqing

Gu Wentong

Huang Yao

Ouyang Wenhui

Zhuangzhuang Tian

Gu Yunlai

Siqin Gaowa

Nan Ji

Hongwei Wang

Li Jun

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Synopsis

Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover. While the seasons come and go, people get together and move apart. Only one thing will remain the same: The White Pagoda where they all meet sooner or later...

Director: Lu Zhang
Producer: Xu Jiahan, Zhang Jian, Peng Jin, Lu Sheng, Huang Yue
Screenwriter: Lu Zhang
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 2h 24m

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