Review: Jia Zhang-ke dances around China’s history with the furious Ash Is Purest White GlobeArts
, Jia Zhang-ke’s 2015 meditation on the unstoppable rise of modern China, the director cheekily used the Pet Shop Boys cover ofto kick things off. As his camera captured leading lady Zhao Tao dancing to the track with friends, Jia allowed audiences to revel in a brief moment of unbridled optimism, before the dark reality of an evolving Shaanxi province took over the narrative.
, which follows the decades-long dissolution of one woman’s relationship with a low-level gangster feels more sedate than righteous. Entire passages stretch along at a too-leisurely pace, allowing whatever anger Jia is surely carrying to too-frequently cool off. Still, by the film’s New Year’s Eve-set finale, there is little doubt that Jia can craft masterful, raging cinematic arguments, when he so desires.
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