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By Stephanie Bunbury (1) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 07 Aug 2018

Through all this, Jia is a keen observer, sympathetic to human passions but never nostalgic; the new China may be cold and acquisitive, but…

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Review of Ash Is Purest White (2018)

By Tom Augustine (27) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 29 Jul 2018

Occasionally dream-like and frequently transcendent, the film brilliantly portrays an ever-evolving Chinese landscape struggling with the many…

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By James Lattimer (30) for Cinema Scope (405) on 04 Jul 2018

Yet for all the different moods and registers that feed into the film, Jia's skill at modulating tone is such that all this heterogeneity still…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2018

The film's emotional center is…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 May 2018

There's a timeless quality to Qiao and Bin's relationship, to its elemental cycles of loyalty, power, and humiliation…

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By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 22 May 2018

Revealing an ambitious, sprawling tale with sidelong storytelling that focuses on grace notes of a much bigger picture…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 May 2018

This is a movie about how time and circumstance conspire to make dazed, restless wanderers of us all…

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By Raphael Abraham (46) for Financial Times (1,822) on 13 May 2018

Zhao is magnificent throughout. With her smile she can project warmth or daggers, and she seems able to grow younger or older at will…

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By Carlos F. Heredero (36) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 13 May 2018

[A] film with powerful images and [an] unpredictable evolution... [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 May 2018

Still, the film is an arresting and ambitious portrait of a nation how it is now, and how it so recently was…

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By Gus Edgar (19) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 13 May 2018

It's a story that takes turns and detours, jolts between peddling for time and well worth your time - a mundane conversation in a car transforms…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 13 May 2018

Ash Is Purest White finds China's most prominent filmmaker wistfully replaying the hits in order to further romanticize some of the fixations…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for Sight and Sound (827) on 12 May 2018

Jia has dedicated his career to scrutinising the complexities of the culture to which he and his films belong and it seems likely that in revisiting…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 11 May 2018

With Ash is Purest White, the always surprising, habitually envelope-pushing film-maker Jia Zhang-ke gives us a complex romantic tragedy from…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 May 2018

Jia's filmography has always felt like a kind of continuum, ideas bleeding from one to another…

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