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Leaving January 1
Directed by Jia Zhangke | 126 mins | 2015
A simple love triangle between three young people living in Fenyang—Jia’s much-revisited and filmed hometown—lays the foundations for an epoch-spanning triptych, describing the past, present, and future of three characters (including leading lady Zhao Tao) forced to negotiate the transformed landscape that emerges after their government’s embrace of global capitalism.
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