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  • 24 City (2008)
    Review preview for 24 City

    This blending of the truth and invention is a key plank of Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke's work, which skates so close to documentary it is hard to spot the join.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.
  • Platform (2000)
    Review preview for Platform

    Jia Zhang-Ke 's style has an honesty that may be limited, but is admirable, too.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A group of young people in Shanxi Province, China, hang about in the early Eighties.
  • Still Life (2006)
    Review preview for Still Life

    More of a mood piece than a strong narrative tale.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Parallel stories of the search for lost love set against the backdrop of the Three Gorges Dam Project.

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