saw Chinese film entitled "The World" this evening -- directed by Jia Zhangke -- some interesting images but on the whole kinda boring -- anybody else seen this film?
even so, along w/ "Millenium Mambo" the film seems to be ushering in a kind of "Chinese film style" -- slow-moving, meditative, loosely connected plot, main protagonists are rootless and beautiful and young (late teens or early 20s) and modern, weird oscillations b/w hope and despair
(the far eastern film that i really rate from past couple years is a love story b/w a shy, fastidious, suicidal writer/librarian and a beautiful but really messy chainsmoker woman -- think it was either a thai or vietnamese production -- but can't recall name of film or director)
even so, along w/ "Millenium Mambo" the film seems to be ushering in a kind of "Chinese film style" -- slow-moving, meditative, loosely connected plot, main protagonists are rootless and beautiful and young (late teens or early 20s) and modern, weird oscillations b/w hope and despair
(the far eastern film that i really rate from past couple years is a love story b/w a shy, fastidious, suicidal writer/librarian and a beautiful but really messy chainsmoker woman -- think it was either a thai or vietnamese production -- but can't recall name of film or director)