Platform (2000)

Original title

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Directed by

Jia Zhangke

Genre

drama film

Country

Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, France, Japan

Runtime

2h 34m

Rated

G

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 99 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young performers in a small Chinese town navigate their personal lives and careers over the course of a decade. They face the slow changes brought by modernization and shifting social norms.

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What happens

Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China (Jia's birthplace), from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform. Platform has garnered wide acclaim from critics in the years since its release, and is often named one of the greatest films of the 2000s. The film has been called the masterpiece of the entire "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, although the movie has never been publicly released in China due to its being made outside of official state approval. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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