内容摘要：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 the

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 the

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