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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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Variety
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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
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
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Impressive though slow moving epic.

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

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

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/23/04
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/24/04
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker
This is London

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12/01/03
Brian Gibson
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.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
10/21/03
Eric Monder
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Film Journal International
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10/02/03
Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe
Film Written Magazine

More meaningful to a Chinese audience than an American one.

Full Review Source: Offoffoff | comment Comment
03/18/03
Joshua Tanzer
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Offoffoff

Comatose is the operative word here.

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

Awesome filmmaking.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
03/14/03
V.A. Musetto
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
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
03/11/03
J. Hoberman
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08/20/02
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08/06/02
FilmFour.com

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

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
08/05/02
Tom Dawson
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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