Mountains May Depart

2016 • 126 minutes

About this movie

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Ratings and reviews

An odd movie. Lots of pauses in conversation, which didn't seem natural. They could have edited out at least 20 minutes from the run-time by leaving out all those pauses. Seems like writing was done by an amateur. I wouldn't recommend it to my friends unless it were free on broadcast TV.