Studio 360: Jia Zhangke’s Empathetic Eye
Podcast |
Slate Daily Feed
Publisher |
Slate Podcasts
Media Type |
audio
Publication Date |
Mar 19, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:20:03
For much of his career, Jia Zhangke’s films were officially banned in his home country, China. But through austere, realist movies like Still Life, Platform, and The World, Jia became one of the most celebrated directors on the international arthouse circuit. His latest film, Ash Is Purest White, appears at first to be a conventional mob epic, focused on a “gangster’s moll” character played magnificently by Zhao Tao. But with a story beginning in 2001 and spanning 17 years, the movie is just as much about the effects of the rapid growth of China’s economy on its society. The dramatic changes led some working-class Chinese to form criminal brotherhoods for support.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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