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Unknown Pleasures Details

2002

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Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world. Read more

Starring	Zhao Wei, Qiong Wu, Qing Feng Zhou, Hong Wei Wang
Director	Jia Zhangke
Genres	World Cinema

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Unknown Pleasures

Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.

Starring	Zhao Wei, Qiong Wu, Qing Feng Zhou, Hong Wei Wang, Ru Bai
Director	Jia Zhangke
Studio	ARTIFICIAL EYE FILM COMPANY LTD.
Certificate
Genres	World Cinema
Language	DVD: Mandarin
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2002 To Rent: DVD: 23 Feb 2004

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- After the historical panorama of Platform, Jia's third feature (shot on DV) returns to the scale and style of Xiao Wu.... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17
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- - 5
  - 0
  Insights into life in the new China
  
  This movie is an invaluable window into how it is to live in modern China.
  
  Small people with big dreams whose will to improve is constantly ... read more »
  
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  - 20 Jan 2006 at 09:41
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  Could've have been good
  
  Perhaps I don't 'get' it because I am not Chinese, however having lived there and speaking the language you would have thought I would have seen the... read more »
  
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- - LingLing
  - 6 reviews
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  - 30 Oct 2009 at 16:32
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  Snoozeville
  
  They didn't discover jack... One of the dullest films I've watched in a long time. Even on constant 4x ff speed... Avoid.
  
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  - OXON
  - 27 Jul 2009 at 09:06
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  weird, slow
  
  have to get used to the pace. v beautiful though.
  
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  - 28 Oct 2008 at 14:47
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Still Life
- 05 Feb 2008
It's just an educated guess, but when people look back at today's era in movies from the perspective of, say, 2040, I reckon the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke will be seen as one of the four or five most important figures. Partly this is a matter of being in the right place at the right time - Jia was born in 1970, in the province of Shanxi, which was also the setting for his first few films: Xiao Wu (aka Pickpocket, 1997), his masterpiece Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002). It's... Read more
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