Director Jia Zhang-Ke Returns with a spreading portrait of romantic fate released from 22 years of images with ”Caught by the tide“His latest collaboration with his wife and muse Zhao tao.
Here she plays Quiaoqiao, which runs through decades of Chinese history while witnessing its deep and turbulent political change. Sideshow and Janus Films open “Caught by Tide” in selected theaters on May 9, and IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer’s premiere below.
Here is a synopsis with the state of New York Film Festival: “The prominent playwright of China’s rapid growth and social transformation from the 21st century, Jia Zhang-Ke Has taken its boldest attitude to the story yet with its fantastic “captured by the tide”. Mounted from pictures shot for 23 years-a devastating mix of fiction and documentary, with a cascade of pictures taken from previous films, unused scenes and recently shot dramatic sequences-“trapped by the tide” is a free-flowing work of unspoken longing, is carried along more by music than dialogs.
NyFF-synopsis also notes that “the film is mostly followed to Qiaoqiao’s perspective (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao) when she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of Long-Lost Lover bin (Li Zhubin), who left her hometown in Datong, seeks new financial prospects. Politics, ideas. ”
This spring premiere of “Caught by Tide” is right in time for a channel program for Chinese filmmakers Jia’s best films, including “Ash is Purest White”, “Mountains can deviate”, “A touch of its”, “24 City”, “Still Life”, “Platform” and more.
More about “captured by the tide” from Indieview’s review: “Tracing the FAINTEST CONTOURS OF A Scripted Love Story Around The Scaffolding of Some Documentary Footage That Jia Has Collected Over The Course of 22 Years… Jia’s Focus is Squarely on Resilience Instead of Eros Somebody else, in a world so volatile and impermanent that people will sink centuries of history to the bottom of the sea just to make way for tomorrow? ”
Sideshow and Janus Films will release “Caught by Tide” in selected theaters on Friday, May 9. Check out the movie’s first trailer, an indieview exclusive, below.
