A Touch of Sin
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2h 9m
Leaving January 1
Directed by Jia Zhangke | 130 mins | 2013
Jia’s jarringly to-the-moment wuxia film, based on scandalous stories from around Mainland China circulated via Weibo posts, focuses on four individuals in four provinces pushed towards violence by rampant injustice—including one who returns home to Chongqing for Chinese New Year.
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Mountains May Depart
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 le... -
The Girl and the Spider
Leaving January 1
Directed by Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher | 98 mins | 2021
An apartment move-out produces an exquisite ballet of curious personal dramas and fraught relationships (new and old) thanks to the whisker-sensitive filmmaking of the Zürcher brothers. Set amid nosy neighbors, it’s ... -
The Strange Case of Angelica
Leaving January 1
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira | 97 mins | 2010
When a photographer is asked by a grieving family to shoot a funeral portrait of their deceased daughter, she miraculously appears to come alive. So begins a typically enchanting and richly detailed ghost story from Oliveira—one o...
