THE MORNING LIST
The tone is serious at the start of the year in cinemas, with the new film by the Chinese Jia Zhang-ke, elegiac and timeless, the latest production by the Spaniard Almodovar, which evokes death without sentimentality, or the first feature film by Agnès de Sacy following in the footsteps of her parents’ complicated romantic past.
Not to be missed
“The Wild Fires”: Jia Zhang-ke on the wings of time
Jia Zhang-ke, undoubtedly the greatest chronicler and poet of contemporary changes in China, builds a good part of his new film on old personal images. Views accumulated over the years, as well as shots borrowed from his past films, such Unknown pleasures (2002), Still Life (2006), The Eternals (2018).
He takes, from within their own intrigues and intentions, a few places (Datong, Fengjie and Zhuhai), symbols of the varied speeds of the country’s transformation. A woman, muse and actress in almost all of her films: Zhao Tao. And a man: actor Zhubin Li, who appears in several. From these images, he rewrites, with new costs, a fable which runs through his entire cinema, determining its dimension that is both thrilling and discreetly elegiac, a fable which tells us that the world always moves faster than men.
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