 | MOVIE #1,066 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.17.23 PART OF THE JIA ZHANGKE DIRECTOR FOCUS [Ed. Note: The four J.Z. films (shorts + features) from 2007-2008 were written as 2-for-1 reviews. This is a joint critique with 24 City (2008).] JZ’s dual offerings for 2008: a faux-(or not so faux?)-documentary (24 City) and a short film, Cry Me a River (featuring long-time regulars Wang Hongwei and Zhao Tao), also feel like minor works in the grand scheme of things. 24 is an interesting setup and potentially his most boundary pushing insofar as bleeding realism into the realm of narrative fiction is concerned. But I was a bit bored by both. |
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Cry Me a River (河上的爱情 Heshang de aiqing, literally "love on the river") is a 2008 short film directed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film is a romance recounting the reunion of four college friends and lovers after ten years. The leads are played by Jia regulars Zhao Tao and Wang Hongwei, and Hao Lei and Guo Xiaodong, who starred together in Lou Ye's 2006 film Summer Palace. Jia has stated that he was inspired by the classic Chinese film Spring in a Small Town, also about the reuniting of former lovers in a rural river town in eastern China. It was released on September 1, 2008.
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