Platform
站台
China • 2000
Director
Synopsis
One of the first masterpieces of twenty-first century cinema, Jia Zhang-Ke’s sophomore feature is an at once epic and intimate vision of the changing China of the 1980s. Unfolding between 1979 and 1990, PLATFORM centers around a provincial theater troupe who go from performing Maoist propaganda as the Fenyang Peasant Culture Group to playing western-influenced pop music as the All-Star Rock and Breakdance Electronic Band—along the way finding themselves increasingly adrift in a society suspended between tradition and modernization.
Synopsis
One of the first masterpieces of twenty-first century cinema, Jia Zhang-Ke’s sophomore feature is an at once epic and intimate vision of the changing China of the 1980s. Unfolding between 1979 and 1990, PLATFORM centers around a provincial theater troupe who go from performing Maoist propaganda as the Fenyang Peasant Culture Group to playing western-influenced pop music as the All-Star Rock and Breakdance Electronic Band—along the way finding themselves increasingly adrift in a society suspended between tradition and modernization.
Credits
Crew
DirectorJia Zhangke
WriterJia Zhangke
CinematographerNelson Yu Lik-wai
ComposerYoshihiro Hanno
EditorKong Jinlei
ProducerLi Kit-Ming, Wang Yu, Shôzô Ichiyama