Caught By The Tides
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Straight from the Cannes Competition, acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s masterly and poetic epic combines footage from his past films with a contemporary narrative in an enduring love story shot over 20 years.
Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao) and Bin (Li Zhubin) – characters frequently featured in Jia’s films – fall in love in Datong in the early 2000s. At the start of their romance, the city seems filled with music, dancing and possibility. But one day, Bin leaves without notice to make his way in the wider world. Qiaoqiao decides to search for him, and so begins a decades-long journey of searching and longing. Without an over-reliance on dialogue, the film is edited with a propulsive energy, and the soundtrack is filled with surprises. And in telling this fragile love story, Jia (Still Life, SFF 2007; Ash is the Purest White) – a brilliant and incisive chronicler of modern China – traces a radically transforming nation. 
- Program Strand
- Late Announce
- Classification
- Unclassified 15+
- Language
- In Mandarin with English subtitles
- Premiere Status
- Australian Premiere
- Director
- Jia Zhangke
- Producer
- Casper Liang Jiayan, Shozo Ichiyama
- Cast
- Li Zhubin, Zhao Tao, Pan Jianlin
- Screenwriter
- Jiahuan Wan, Jia Zhangke
- Cinematographer
- Lik-wai Yu, Eric Gautier
- Editor
- Yang Chao, Lin Xudong
- Genre
- Asia, Cinephile, Cannes Selected, Late Announce, Festival Award Winners
