内容摘要：This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Katharine Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot’s first names.

This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Katharine Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot’s first names.

Few films course with history the way it does in thean epic collage that spans 21 years. Jia undertook the film during the pandemic, assembling a mix of fiction and documentary, including images from his earlier films as well as newly shot scenes.

That might sound like a mishmash kind of moviemaking. But for Jia, the preeminent cinematic chronicler of 21st century China, it’s a remarkably cohesive, even profound vessel for capturing what has most interested him as a filmmaker: the tidal wave-sized currents of technological progress and social transmutation that wash over a lifetime.The high-speed upheavals of modern China are, of course, a fitting setting for such interests. Jia’s films are often most expressed in their surroundings — in vistas of infrastructure that dwarf his protagonists. Fans of Jia will recognize some from his previous films. For me, there’s never been a more moving backdrop from him than the rubble and mass displacement of theproject (seen here, as in his 2008 film “Still Life”).

“Caught by the Tides” is ostensibly about Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao, Jia’s wife and muse) and her lover Bin (Li Zhubin), whom she searches for years after a row sent them in different directions. But in “Caught by the Tides,” these characters are more like life rafts bobbing in expansive waters, making their way aimlessly.The poetry of “Caught by the Tides” comes from a grander arc. In one of the film’s opening scenes, shot on grainy digital film, women in a Datong city room laugh together, singing old, half-remembered songs. The film’s final scenes, set more than two decades later in the southern city of Zhuhai, are more crisply photographed and depict a more impersonal world of smartphones, robots and QR codes. For a moment, Jia even adopts the perspective of a surveillance camera.

Another moment: a shot, from pre-digital times, drifting down a street with men looking back at us, smoking and mildly curious. Cut then to what might be the same street years later, where a woman parades as a model in front of a sprawling shopping mall.

In “Caught by the Tides,” these changes go unexplained and unspoken. But the evolutions they chart are deeply familiar to anyone who has lived through even some of these years, in China or elsewhere. We see how people once moved differently, spoke differently and sang differently. Progress and loss exist together as one. Zhao and Li age through the film, leaving them weathered, too, by time. A song late in the film goes: “I can’t grasp the warmth we once shared.”Finally, all agreed that nothing in their experience would keep them from being fair and impartial.

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the heavy metal and hard rock scene that grew out of the punk movement. The music agency that Shapiro cofounded, Sound Talent Group, represented groups like Pierce The Veil, Parkway Drive and Sum 41, while also venturing into more pop acts such as Vanessa Carlton.It could take a year to sort out exactly what happened to the plane, but investigators know there was thick fog, problems with the runway lights and a broken weather alert system, according to Dan Baker of the National Transportation Safety Board.