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MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (China/France/Japan 2015) ***
Directed by Jia Zhangke
Starring: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Dong Liang
Review by Gilbert Seah
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART is the new film from China’s art house favourite director Jia Zhangke whose all other films that included PLATFORM, STILL LIFE, 24 CITY and the most recent A TOUCH OF SIN were all screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. His films share the same theme of the individual living in a changing society, which in this case is China.
His films are interesting primarily because Jia is a director who does what he likes, and therefore breaks the mould of films in this genre. In MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART for example, the film is told in three parts, but they do not dwell on three separate characters but on three different times…
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