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  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk down memory lane, as he revisits his hometown and other locations used in creating his ever-growing body of work. At each location, they visit Jia's family, friends, and former colleagues, and their conversations range from his mother's tale...

Written By: Walter Salles, Jean-Michel Frodon

  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m

Jia Zhangke, A guy from Fenyang

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
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Summary Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk down memory lane, as he revisits his hometown and other locations used in creating his ever-growing body of work. At each location, they visit Jia's family, friends, and former colleagues, and their conversations range from his mother's tale...

Written By: Walter Salles, Jean-Michel Frodon

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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90
May 29, 2016
More than just mining the past, Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang is fuelled by an anxious look toward the future - not just Jia's, but also that of his profession and his people as China marches on to the state-controlled drumbeat of economic liberalism and tight political control.
By Clarence Tsui FULL REVIEW
80
May 29, 2016
An intelligent, restrained but warmly intimate cinematic conversation with the Sixth Generation Chinese trailblazer.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
May 26, 2016
The movie’s most moving sequence is near the end, when Mr. Jia discusses his father, who faced awful hardships during the Cultural Revolution.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
May 24, 2016
Walter Salles reinforces the impression of Jia's own art as emerging fluidly from the vagaries of his own life and socioeconomic position.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
70
May 25, 2016
This is portraiture for the Zhangke-acquainted. Admirers will find much of interest here, as Salles, scrupulously self-effacing, affords Jia the latitude to think and talk at his leisure — to speak at length, and candidly, about his work and what informs it.
By Calum Marsh FULL REVIEW
58
May 25, 2016
The problem with art like Jia’s is that a straightforward approach isn’t going to reveal anything that isn’t already there in the work or document anything that the movies don’t already document themselves. And why settle for second-hand when you can just go and watch the real thing?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
50
May 27, 2016
While Salles’ portrait gives a very incomplete account of the man and his art, it pays tribute to a filmmaker who remains among the medium’s foremost and most fascinating creators.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW

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Production Company VideoFilmes
Release Date May 27, 2016
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Awards

London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Premios Fénix (Fenix Film Awards)
• 1 Nomination

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