Directed by:
Zhangke JiaScreenplay:
Zhangke JiaCinematography:
Nelson Yu Lik-waiComposer:
Giong LimCast:
Tao Zhao, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang, Sanming Han, Tai-shen Cheng, Hongwei Wang, Jingdong LiangPlots(1)
Zhao Tao, Jia's muse, is one of these troupers. For Tao and the larger ensemble of pageant performers at Beijing's real-life World Park (a sprawling hyper-pastiche of global landmarks famous sites from five continents), love is respite from work, work is respite from love, and the line that extends from the past to the future loses all definition beyond the present. The fourth feature by internationally acclaimed auteur Jia Zhangke was also his breakout success, an epic with a canvas as vast, and intimate, as its title suggests: a state-of-the-modern-world address, and a look at the insular world of a troupe of Chinese stage-performers dreaming of freedom. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Tao Zhao
China
Best movies:
The World (2004)
Still Life (2006)
Platform (2000)
Zhong-wei Jiang
Best movies:
The World (2004)
Sanming Han
China
Best movies:
The World (2004)
Still Life (2006)
Platform (2000)
Tai-shen Cheng
China
Best movies:
Mountain Cry (2015)
Biutiful (2010)
Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
Hongwei Wang
China
Best movies:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Pickpocket (1997)
Ten Years (2015)
Jingdong Liang
China
Best movies:
The World (2004)
Platform (2000)
Mountains May Depart (2015)