Mountains May Depart

Mountains May Depart
Chinese 山河故人
Mandarin Shānhé gùrén
Directed by Jia Zhangke
Produced by Ren Zhonglun
Nathanaël Karmitz
Liu Shiyu
Shozo Ichiyama
Written by Jia Zhangke
Starring Zhao Tao
Zhang Yi
Liang Jingdong
Dong Zijian
Production
companies
Xstream Pictures
Shanghai Film Group
MK2
Distributed by Sihai Distribution Association (China)[1]
Tianjin Maoyan Media (China)[1]
Ad Vitam (France)
Release date
  • 20 May 2015 (2015-05-20) (Cannes)
  • 30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) (China)
  • 12 February 2016 (2016-02-12) (United States)
Running time
 131 minutes
Country China
France
Japan
Language Mandarin
Box office CN¥32.22 million (China)
US$79,768 (United States)[2]

Mountains May Depart (Chinese: 山河故人) is a 2015 drama film directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is Jia's eighth feature film.[3][4] It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6] It has also been selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[7] It was released in China on 30 October 2015.[1]

Plot

The film has three parts, set in 1999, 2014 and in Australia in the year 2025, respectively.[8]

Cast

Reception

Box office

The film earned CN¥32.22 million at the Chinese box office.[1]

Critical reception

Mountains May Depart holds a 79/100 average on review aggregation site Metacritic.[9] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, "Jia Zhang-ke’s Mountains May Depart is a mysterious and in its way staggeringly ambitious piece of work from a film-maker whose creativity is evolving before our eyes."[10]

Scott Foundas of Variety states "Mountains May Depart is never less than a work of soaring ambition and deeply felt humanism, as Jia longs not so much to turn back the hands of time, but to ever so slightly slow them down."[11]

Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave it a 5 out of 10, calling the film a "weakly written saga of friendship [that] goes way off the rails in the final part."[12]

Music

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "山河故人（2015）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mountains May Depart". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "山河故人 (2015)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Kevin Ma (13 February 2015). "Shanghai Film Group reveals forthcoming projects". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "2015 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Screenings Guide". Festival de Cannes. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Toronto to open with 'Demolition'; world premieres for 'Trumbo', 'The Program'". ScreenDaily. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  8. 1 2 Patrick Frater (19 May 2014). "China’s Jia Zhangke Plans ‘Mountains’ Trek (EXCLUSIVE)". variety.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Mountains May Depart Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  10. ↑ Peter Bradshaw (20 May 2015). "Mountains May Depart review: Jia Zhang-ke scales new heights with futurist drama". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Scott Foundas (19 May 2015). "Cannes Film Review: ‘Mountains May Depart’". Variety. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  12. ↑ Derek Elley (21 May 2015). "Mountains May Depart". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  13. 1 2 (in French) Antoine Duplan, "« Au-delà des montagnes » : l’argent ne fait pas le bonheur de la Chine", Le Temps, Tuesday 26 January 2016 (page visited on 3 February 2016).
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