Mountains May Depart

Shan He Gu Ren

At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia Zhangke's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"Jia's languid style and exquisite framing complement his understated approach to the material, which opts for depth over melodrama." - G. Allen Johnson, The San Francisco Chronicle