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‘Caught By The Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke’s Romance Is All Mood; Substance Is Harder To Come By – Cannes Film Festival
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides.
There’s little more to the story than this — some peripheral characters recur for a scene or three, hinting at a larger narrative than ever emerges, but Jia is more interested in playing with form and mood. Hers is the performance that anchors the film; Jia Zhangke’s informal, experimental approach to its construction might be his stock in trade, but without Zhao the tides would struggle to catch us. Title: Caught By the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai) Festival: Cannes(Competition) Director-screenwriter: Jia Zhangke Cast: Zhao Tao, Zhubin Li Sales agent: MK2 Films Running time: 1 hr 51 min
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