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Mountains May Depart
CHINA · 2015

Mountains May Depart

Jia Zhangke
passage of time rural-to-urban migration family separation modernization in China unrequited love
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Synopsis

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

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