ROma, 14 Apr. (askanews) – he tells a lot about today’s China and the transformations he has crossed in the last 20 years Romantic generationthe film Jia Zhangke In Italian cinemas on April 17th. The winner of the Golden Lion in Venice with Still Life This time he follows the love dynamics of a couple, from 2001 to the pandemic, but above all he brings out almost documentary form the social dynamics of a country. In the film we see China with the discolored portrait of Mao, of the miners, the elderly workers, the archaic country on the one hand and the consumerist country, the shopping centers, the robots, the destruction of the landscape to make room for “modernity”.
“I started shooting this movie 20 years ago, By collecting a lot of material, without ever seeing what I resumed. – explained the director – Then during the assembly I retraced all this journey, and those images resumed life. It immediately appeared to me evident that people have changed, how their energy has changed since the beginning of the century, and how today they are more closed, almost imprisoned. I believe that the two Cine still convinced today, because its history is complicated and made of many realities».
Music, from traditional work to rock, crosses the whole film, accompanies every change, every situation, highlights the spirit of every place and character. «There are many musical elements, From the original themes to the melodies recorded gradually, in every era, to rock music of artists of my generation. Those who lived the changes I lived. “
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