Mountains May Depart

Mountains May Depart is an epically scaled canvas, a heartbreaking prayer for the restoration of what has been lost in the name of progress. In Fenyang, China in 1999, on the cusp of the capitalist explosion: Shen Tao has two suitors—Zhang, an entrepreneur-to-be, and his best friend Liangzi, who makes his living in the local coal mine. Shen Tao decides, with a note of regret, to marry Zhang, a man with a future. Flash-forward 15 years: the couple’s son Dollar is paying a visit to his now-estranged mother, and everyone and everything seems to have grown more distant in time and space… and then further ahead in time, to even greater distances. In Chinese with subtitles.

Jia Zhangke | China/France/Japan | 2015 | 126 min.

Co-presented by Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

Three Rivers Film Festival
November 6-15, 2015

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