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Mountains May Depart

Shan he gu ren (Mountains May Depart)

2015

Jia Zhangke

Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jingdong, Dong Zijian ...

6.5

1,856

Drama China, at the end of 1999. Tao, a young woman from Fenyang, is courted by her two childhood friends, Zang and Lianzi. Zang, owner of a gas station, is destined for a promising future, whereas Liang works in a coal mine. Her heart divided between the two men, Tao must make a choice that will seal her fate and that of her future son, Dollar.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Flawed but exquisite."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Few filmmakers working today look as deeply at the changing world as Mr. Jia does, or make the human stakes as vivid."	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"So confident is this director's touch that 'Mountains May Depart' holds you with the humanity of its telling rather than the gloom of its conclusions. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"If 'Mountains' feels a touch schematic at times, and awkward in its third-act (...) the cumulative impact is still enormously touching, highlighted by Jia’s rapturous image-making and a luminous central performance by (...) Zhao Tao."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A mysterious and in its way staggeringly ambitious piece of work (...) What a wonderful performance from Zhao Tao (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Godfrey Cheshire rogerebert.com	"Another intimate journey through history that’s as stirring and beautifully nuanced as anything he’s made (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"With audacious leaps of time and intimate echoes spanning a quarter century of intertwined lives, the director Jia Zhangke endows this romantic melodrama with vast geopolitical import."	POS

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