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Jia Zhangke on ‘Caught by the Tides’ and Looking Forward and Backwards at the Same Time

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Jia Zhangke, China’s quintessential indie director, says that the COVID-era lockdowns gave him a chance to rethink and review the miles of footage that he has shot over more than 20 years of filmmaking.

The result was “Caught by the Tides,” which premiered at Cannes and plays again this week at the Busan International Film Festival.

In “Tides,” Jia mixes up older footage with specially-created new material and has his wife and muse, Zhao Tao wander through twenty years of Chinese history.

They are both documenting and dramatizing recent Chinese societal and economic development – from the time when China was granted admission to the World Trade Organization, through the time when it won the right to hold the (2008) summer Olympic Games through to a near present.

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