Platform

2001, Movie, 2h 35min

One of the first masterpieces of twenty-first century cinema, Jia Zhang-Ke’s sophomore feature is an at once epic and intimate vision of the changing China of the 1980s. Unfolding between 1979 and 1990, PLATFORM centers around a provincial theater troupe who go from performing Maoist propaganda as the Fenyang Peasant Culture Group to playing western-influenced pop music as the All-Star Rock and Breakdance Electronic Band—along the way finding themselves increasingly adrift in a society suspended between tradition and modernization.

Country: China,Hong Kong,Japan,France

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Critic David Parkinson

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Superbly played, beautifully filmed, 'Platform' is powerful Eastern filmmaking.

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