2007 · drama · chinese
The Sun Also Rises
Directed by Jiang Wen1h 56m2007
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
Our read: The Sun Also Rises (2007) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal drama · chinese entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / chinese, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- inventive
- twisty
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“You want colorful Chinese magical realism with tangled stories across eras.”
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