Crosscurrent
aka Chang jiang tu
First screened in October 2016
Director: Chao Yang. Cast: Qin Hao, Xin Zhilei, Tan Kai, Wang Hongwei, Wu Lipeng, Jiang Hualin. Screenplay: Chao Yang.

 Twitter Capsule: Mark Lee Ping Bin, who deserves a Nobel in cinema, shot this agnostic epic about poetry and industry in modern China.

VOR: ④  Not just a technical feat and an artful meditation on time, history, and the modern world but a unique onscreen inquiry into poetry.


Photo © 2016 Trend Cultural Investment Co./
Ray Production/Just Show Production Beijing/
Shandong Jiabo Culture Development Co.

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B+

Awards:
Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear for Artistic Contribution (Ping-Bin Lee, cinematography)
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