I figli del fiume giallo

A bittersweet tale from China's boldest contemporary director

It's hard to remember the last time an actress aged as convincingly on screen as Zhao Tao does in the melancholic, gently epic Ash Is Purest White. This luminous star, the wife and constant muse of Chinese voice-of-his-generation Jia Zhangke, begins the film as a gangster's moll, Qiao, whose boyfriend Bin (Liao Fan) holds sway in a fast-declining mining town called Datong. In the main bar-cum-casino, she pushes the clientele around and disports herself with borrowed cigarettes, bored and in charge, and looking like a million dollars. [...]

di Tim Robey, articolo completo (2656 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Daily Telegraph 26 aprile 2019