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Critics Consensus: Ash Is Purest White finds writer-director Zhangke Jia revisiting familiar themes while continuing to observe modern Chinese society with an urgent, empathetic eye.
Critic Consensus: Ash Is Purest White finds writer-director Zhangke Jia revisiting familiar themes while continuing to observe modern Chinese society with an urgent, empathetic eye.
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[Ash] moves fluidly from naturalism to melodrama to tell an epic story of a wayward, romantically frustrated woman over roughly 15 years.
Jia Zhang-Ke's large scale reintroduction is hardly a disappointment; it's simply another fine Jia Zhang-Ke film. What did we expect?
Entire passages stretch along at a too-leisurely pace, allowing whatever anger Jia is surely carrying to too frequently cool off. Still, by the film's New Year's Eve-set finale, there's little doubt Jia can create masterful cinematic moments.
There's a timeless quality to Qiao and Bin's relationship, to its elemental cycles of loyalty, power, and humiliation.
This is a movie about how time and circumstance conspire to make dazed, restless wanderers of us all.
Ash Is Purest White finds China's most prominent filmmaker wistfully replaying the hits in order to further romanticize some of the fixations that have always dominated his work.
If you don't see Ash Is Purest White you will miss one of the year's greatest treasures, one of its most mature, complex characters, and certainly one of Zhangke's best.
Ash is Purest White is a tremendous, funny, heartbreaking, sprawling vehicle for Zhao, and what a gift it is to see her exploring the furthest reaches of those talents.
It's an excellent, if languid, genre exercise.
Witty, gritty, resourceful, and burning with the "righteousness" of which other criminals only boast, [Zhao Tao] endures.
There's something comforting, and frankly invigorating, about watching such an undeniably messy, sprawling, ambitious voice coming from the East.
Ash has at least five endings, but its ups and downs are as riveting as they are exhausting.
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