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Platform
CHINA · 2000

Platform

Jia Zhangke
cultural revolution social transformation rural modernization performing arts generational change
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Synopsis

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Cinema Atlas Connection
I also deeply admired Italian neorealist films like Bicycle Thieves. The way they captured reality and the lives of ordinary people with such honesty and simplicity really resonated with me, and I tried to bring that spirit to my own work, especially in Platform.
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