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Unknown Pleasures

Unknown Pleasures

2002, Movie, 1h 52min

One of the first great films of the twenty-first century, Jia Zhang-Ke’s third feature (and his first shot on digital) sets an arresting tale of disaffected youth against the backdrop of a changing China. Evoking the existential malaise of China’s so-called “birth control” generation—who came of age following the country’s one-child policy—UNKNOWN PLEASURES unfolds in a series of stunning, slow-burn long takes as it traces the relationship between an aimless teenage couple searching for meaning amid the detritus of Western pop culture.

Country: South Korea,Japan,China,France,Hong Kong

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Critic William Thomas

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Fitfully fascinating...

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Unknown Pleasures was released in theaters on September 29, 2002.