Few of China's Sixth Generation filmmakers have turned to their country's explosive economic growth and its attendant upheavals with so sharp an eye and so heavy a heart as Jia Zhang-ke (PLATFORM, UNKNOWN PLEASURES, THE WORLD). Jia's fifth feature -- the winner of the top prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival -- depicts the continuing dissolution of traditional Chinese communities while making brilliant use the most dramatic example of China's latest great leap forward: the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydro-electric power station that, when finished, will have displaced nearly 1.5 million people and caused an unforeseeable amount of environmental damage. <...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins