The Shadowless Tower

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The Shadowless Tower

2024

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

04/01/2024

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

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Justin Chang

NPR

03/22/2024

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...

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Manohla Dargis

New York Times

03/14/2024

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.

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Charles Lyons-Burt

Spectrum Culture

03/20/2024

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.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

12/17/2023

6.5

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.

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Michael Sicinski

In Review Online

10/13/2023

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.

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