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I Wish I Knew

Hai shang chuan qi (I Wish I Knew)

2010

Jia Zhangke

Documentary, Self: Chang Hsin-i, Chen Danqing, Mei-Ru Du ...

6.1

194

Documentary Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Wondrous yet rueful views of the city, with its blend of grandeur and squalor, are anchored by the wanderings of an actress, Zhao Tao"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"Even without access to all that it references, 'I Wish I Knew' functions as an admirable cinematic tone poem about a place and its times (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Maggie Lee The Hollywood Reporter	"The film suffers from information deficiency (...) Cinephiles who adore festival darling Jia would still lap up a section related to Chinese cinema"	NEU
United States	Lawrence Garcia AV Club	"Jia manages to convey a specifically Chinese understanding of how one’s history and culture has been fractured, transmitted, distorted, and otherwise represented, particularly on film."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Jia is building not just a portrait of a city, but of a fragmented people — one story and memory at a time."	POS

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