Cast : Jia Zhangke, 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
