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The Shadowless Tower

Play trailer Poster for The Shadowless Tower Released Mar 15, 2024 2h 24m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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