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Unknown Pleasures is Jia's third feature film after 1997's Xiao Wu and 2000s Platform, and it is sometimes considered the final film of an informal trilogy on a modern China in transition. The film also marked Jia's last production outside of the Chinese studio system.
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
- 2
- Jia Zhangke
- 113 min
Unknown Pleasures tests the patience with a look at modern China that can feel as aimless as its characters' lives, but gathers real resonance as it goes along. Read Critics...
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- Tao Zhao
- Zhang-Ke Jia
- Drama
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
- (4.4K)
- Jia Zhangke
Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2002 • China. Starring Wu Qiong, Zhao Wei Wei, Zhao Tao. One of the first great films of the twenty-first century, Jia Zhangke’s third feature (and his first shot on digital) sets an arresting tale of disaffected youth against the backdrop of a changing China.
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Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company...
