Jia Zhangke
“Caught by the Tides” eludes the narcissistic congratulation found in self-referential cinema because it absorbs Jia’s early work to create something that has the shock of the new, as much as it builds on the past.
In “A Touch of Sin,” four depressing stories float into one other, all said to be based on news stories from Chinese papers.

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