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Art College 1994

2023

Animation, Voice: Huang Bo, Guanjin Bu, Xu Changchu ...

Animation. Drama In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.

	Media	Author	Review
		Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"[It] is unassumingly sweet because it’s about young people and their eternal quest for freedom and self-expression (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Endearing, if you can take the dorm-room philosophizing (...) This [feels] altogether like a lost graphic novel you find in a dive bar and love until the pages fall apart"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"Shaggy but amiable animated feature is instructive"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"The students have an awful lot of theories about art, but rarely get around to finishing any of it (...) It evokes a specific time and a place so vividly that you can almost taste the stale cigarette smoke and cheap beer"
		Ryan Coleman Slant	"Liu is as fascinated by the ’90s as Jia, and explores them in much the same way, by creating a stirring marriage of the personal and the national, the now and the always (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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