JIA ZHANGKE, A GUY FROM FENYANG

A film by Walter Salles

Cast : Jia Zhang-ke, Zao Tao

2015 / documentary / original title : JIA ZHANGKE, A GUY FROM FENYANG / 98’ / Color / status : completed / long feature-film / International collections

Walter Salles (On the Road) follows Jia Zhangke in China to the sets of his films, drawing a touching portrait of one of today’s greatest directors.

Press

“Intelligent and warmly intimate”

Variety

“What Salles and his fellow interviewer, the French critic Jean-Michel Frodon, reveal in A Guy from Fenyang is a man on fire”

Hollywood Reporter

“A rich and often moving tribute (…) an insightful and revelatory experience”

Cine-Vue

“Salles maintains an admirable humility (…) Jia is both articulate about his aims with his films and willing to be emotionally candid in front of Salles’s camera.”

Slant Magazine

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