Ash is Purest White (Jiang hu er nu)
(Jia Zhangke, 2019, 141 min, China, Mandarin w/ English subtitles, Color, DCP)

Set over a 17-year period beginning in 2001, this epic romantic tragedy from Jia Zhangke unfolds with uncommon precision and disarming pathos. In a career-high performance, Zhao Tao stars as the fiercely loyal girlfriend of a local gangster played by Liao Fan. Enduring a prison sentence on his behalf, she emerges to find a changed China.

-- Introduced by Prof. Rey Chow (Program in Literature)

"This is one of Zhangke’s peak achievements: pure cinema, and a story of the underworld unlike anything you’ve seen before." Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

Sponsored by the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES).

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