Mountains May Depart

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Mountains May Depart
File:Mountains May Depart poster.jpg
Directed by Jia Zhangke
Produced by Ren Zhonglun
Nathanaël Karmitz
Liu Shiyu
Shozo Ichiyama
Written by Jia Zhangke
Starring Zhao Tao
Zhang Yi
Liang Jingdong
Dong Zijian
Production
companies
Xstream Pictures
Shanghai Film Group
MK2
Distributed by Sihai Distribution Association (China)[1]
Tianjin Maoyan Media (China)[1]
Ad Vitam (France)
Release dates
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  • 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20) (Cannes)
  • 30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) (China)
  • 12 February 2016 (2016-02-12) (United States)
Running time
 131 minutes
Country China
France
Japan
Language Mandarin
Box office CN¥32.22 million (China)
US$79,768 (United States)[2]

Mountains May Depart (Chinese: 山河故人) is a 2015 drama film directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is Jia's eighth feature film.[3][4] It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6] It has also been selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[7] It was released in China on 30 October 2015.[1]

Plot

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Cast

Reception

Box office

The film earned CN¥32.22 million at the Chinese box office.[1]

Critical reception

Mountains May Depart holds a 79/100 average on review aggregation site Metacritic.[9] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, "Jia Zhang-ke’s Mountains May Depart is a mysterious and in its way staggeringly ambitious piece of work from a film-maker whose creativity is evolving before our eyes."[10]

Scott Foundas of Variety states ""Mountains May Depart" is never less than a work of soaring ambition and deeply felt humanism, as Jia longs not so much to turn back the hands of time, but to ever so slightly slow them down."[11]

Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave it a 5 out of 10, calling the film a "weakly written saga of friendship [that] goes way off the rails in the final part."[12]

Music

References

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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 (French) Antoine Duplan, "« Au-delà des montagnes » : l’argent ne fait pas le bonheur de la Chine", Le Temps, Tuesday 26 January 2016 (page visited on 3 February 2016).

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