Platform (2000)
79 %
Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 15 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
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 group of performing artists who change with the cultural and political changes in China,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Hong Wei Wang, Jing dong Liang, Tiang Yi Yang, Tao Zhao
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Screenwriter: Zhang Ke Jia
Producer: Kit Ming Li, Shozo Ichiyama
Composer: Yoshihiro Hanno
Screenwriter: Zhang Ke Jia
Producer: Kit Ming Li, Shozo Ichiyama
Composer: Yoshihiro Hanno
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Reviews
Tells a specifically Chinese story, and yet it does so in a completely universal way.
09/23/05 09:17 AM
A laconic portrait of a remote Chinese city in arrested development.
05/23/04 08:24 PM
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12/15/03 05:07 PM
'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.
10/21/03 09:50 PM
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10/02/03 05:05 PM
Top Critic The play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating.
03/11/03 02:46 PM
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08/20/02 08:10 AM
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08/06/02 08:09 AM
Pleasingly ambivalent towards the impact of historical forces on ordinary lives.
08/05/02 08:09 AM
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.
06/18/02 08:09 AM
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