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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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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.
Jia's filmography has always felt like a kind of continuum, ideas bleeding from one to another. But Ash Is Purest White creates a direct communion with his past work.
A novelistic epic of broken romance.
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.
However mostly we leave with Zhao Tao's indelible face etched in our memories and proof once again that this a collaboration of director and actor that we want more of.
Another tough, challenging slog from Jia Zhangke, albeit propped up by Zhao Tao's thoroughly engaging performance.
The two-way relationship between Jia and Zhao is the main attraction... Ash Is Purest White is about what it takes to keep love from burning out but its excellence, as well as its existence, is evidence of a genuinely incandescent artistic partnership.
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