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Jan 24, 2020 · Made between his sublime “24 City” (2008) and his angry, violent 2013 “A Touch of Sin,’ “I Wish I Knew” takes its title from the American songbook standard, here heard as sung by U.S. crooner Dick Haymes, while a group of contemporary Shanghai senior citizens are seen dancing to it.
Jan 23, 2020 · ‘I Wish I Knew’ Review: A Melancholy Master’s Portrait of a City In this elegiac documentary, the director Jia Zhangke explores Shanghai through its people, stories and soaring cranes. Share ...
Feb 13, 2020 Full Review Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine Ending a minor but fascinating film in Jia's provocative oeuvre, the images of these sleepers are a prelude to the other troubled...
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Jan 16, 2020 · Now on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD: bit.ly/3dnjb0NShanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing...
Oct 14, 2010 · I Wish I Knew — Film Review. Dipping into the historical, human and scenic through interviews and nomadic location shooting, it reveals what most films touching on modern Chinese history...
Jan 24, 2020 · What ensues amidst Jia’s indelible, gliding visuals of modern Shanghai are ruminative testimonials from the breadth of an older citizenry — former soldiers, descendants of gangsters and politicians, and (lots of) artists who endured the city’s turbulent evolution, and who in their stories of family, love and survival form a ...
Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing port city. 9 IMDb 6.9 1 h 58 min 2020. 18+.
