24 City – The Children of Mao and Microsoft
Jia Zhiang-ke’s style, temperament, and circumstances uniquely suit him to chronicle his subject: turn-of-the-century China. His early films focused on youth, dislocated between the reality of, the backwater areas where they live, and the beckoning promise of an urbanized “modernity†of their dreams. More recently, he set The World among young workers in an urban [...]
