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Reviews Counted: 19

Fresh: 15

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 6.7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Mar 14, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: Examining the transition in 1980s China away from Maoism and socialism and towards commercialism, Westernization, and popular culture, PLATFORM comes from director Jia Zhang Ke. The film follows a... Examining the transition in 1980s China away from Maoism and socialism and towards commercialism, Westernization, and popular culture, PLATFORM comes from director Jia Zhang Ke. The film follows a group of performing artists who change with the cultural and political changes in China, becoming less and less humble and more and more like Western rock stars. A film that creatively depicts an important chapter in Chinese history, PLATFORM has been compared to BOOGIE NIGHTS and BYE BYE BRAZIL. [More]

Starring: Hong Wei Wang, Jing dong Liang, Tiang Yi Yang, Tao Zhao

Starring: Hong Wei Wang, Jing dong Liang, Tiang Yi Yang, Tao Zhao

Director: Zhang Ke Jia

Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Screenwriter: Zhang Ke Jia
Producer: Kit Ming Li, Shozo Ichiyama
Composer: Yoshihiro Hanno
Studio: Empire Pictures

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12/30/06
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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

Tells a specifically Chinese story, and yet it does so in a completely universal way.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
09/23/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Impressive though slow moving epic.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
08/05/05
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development.

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05/23/04
Ed Gonzalez
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
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12/01/03
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

'The Wait Seems Never-Ending,' is how the title song from Platform goes, and the 155-minute film surely tries one's patience, but the end (which does finally come) is almost worth that wait.

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10/21/03
Eric Monder
Film Journal International
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10/02/03
Andrew Howe
Film Written Magazine

More meaningful to a Chinese audience than an American one.

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03/18/03
Joshua Tanzer
Offoffoff

Comatose is the operative word here.

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03/16/03
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Awesome filmmaking.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
03/14/03
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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A small masterpiece of exquisitely subtle filmmaking.

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03/13/03
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating.

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03/11/03
J. Hoberman
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08/06/02
FilmFour.com

Pleasingly ambivalent towards the impact of historical forces on ordinary lives.

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08/05/02
Tom Dawson
BBC

With its long, patient scenes, Jia's film captures the sleepy rhythms of this town and the confusion of these young people who are constrained by cultural forces far beyond their ken.

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06/18/02
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