ASH IS PUREST WHITE

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, May 8, 2019 7:30 PM

Description

CINEMA SHOWCASE Hosted by Fred Craden and Cat Kim

ASH IS PUREST WHITE

Wednesday, May 8 at 7:30 pm | Members $7 | Public $12

Winner of Prix du Jury and Best Actress at the International Cinephile Society Awards


“This is a movie about how time and circumstance conspire to make dazed, restless wanderers of us all.” – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times


Jia Zhangke’s gangster epic is a twisting tale of love and survival in 21st-century China.
A tragicomedy initially set in the jianghu-criminal underworld-setting, Ash Is Purest White begins by following the quickwitted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong. With a three-part structure, the film then expands out into an epic narrative about how abstract forces shape individual lives, and continues Jia Zhangke's body of work as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations. (China, 2019, 141 mins., NR, Mandarin | Dir. Jia Zhangke)