Jianbin Chen,
Jiang Lin,
Joan Chen,
Lu Liping,
Lv Liping
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Chengdu, nowadays. The state-owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 City." Three generations, eight characters: old workers, factory executives and yuppi...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
Stats: 85 reviews
A fascinating and baffling hybrid of fiction and documentary. Jia interviews 9 former workers of the now dissembled aircraft parts factory which is being replaced in the current market economy by a housing and commercial center in the city of Chengdu. The catch is that 4 of the...( read more)
The complexity of [Zhangke's] postmodernist formal gambit nonetheless gets at something pressing. full review
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