2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” Sees “The World” as Capitalist

Almost splitting his time equally between the Lido and the Croisette, with almost a dozen features in (a mix of fiction and docus), Jia Zhangke first arrived in Cannes back in 2002 with Unknown Pleasures, 2008’s 24 City, followed those up with docu offering in 2010’s Un Certain Regard selected I Wish I Knew, and of course, wowed the establishment in 2013 with A Touch of Sin — which won for Best Screenplay. Re-teaming with his muse and wife Zhao Tao, Zhangke uses the vignettes approach again with a sprinkling of the English language in Mountains May Depart — in what Variety describes as a “polymorphous snapshot of 21st-century capitalism“. As you can see below, our critics are all over the map on this title.

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