2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White

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An habitual of both Cannes and Venice, now in his third decade of filmmaking, Jia Zhangke first arrived in Cannes for 2002’s Unknown Pleasures, then followed that with 2008’s 24 City, 2010’s Un Certain Regard selected I Wish I Knew, 2013’s A Touch of Sin and Mountains May Depart in 2015. This year, he presents his almost two decade spanning Ash Is Purest White – with wife-actress Zhao Tao owning the screen.

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With the first screenings taking place yesterday night, this two plus hour opus tackles several issues: feminism, expropriation, the changing face of China, and survivalism and takes the gangster subgenre in a new terrain in a mostly fiction frame (there is a splash of docu elements with lush design via Eric Gautier). Almost all of our jury sent in their grades and it looks to be among the favorites so far and in my case, a film I look forward to revisiting and deconstructing.

 

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Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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