I figli del fiume giallo

Justin Chang

After a slow start, the 71st Cannes Film Festival has found its footing with two early Palme d'Or contenders, "Ash Is Purest White" and "Cold War" ("Zimna Wojna"). Although these films could scarcely be more different in form and feel - one is sprawling and expansive, the other taut and precise - each is a story of thwarted yet oddly resilient love, as well as a beautiful marriage of the political and the personal. That particular synthesis is nothing new for Jia Zhangke, the revered Chinese writer-director whose work brings the chaos of life in his rapidly evolving country into hyper-crisp digital focus. [...]

di Justin Chang, articolo completo (3930 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Los Angeles Times 13 maggio 2018