by Norman Wilner on December 18th, 2020 at 12:30 PM
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Swimming Out Until The Sea Turns Blue
(
Yi zhi you dao hai shui bian lan)
A documentary by Jia Zhangke. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. Streaming at VIFF Connect from Friday (December 18) to January 14.
Chinese master Jia Zhangke’s first documentary in over a decade—after a run of ambitious narrative features like
A Touch Of Sin,
Mountains May Depart, and
Ash Is Purest White—uses a literary festival in the filmmaker’s home province of Shanxi to explore the last few decades of Chinese history from the perspective of three writers from different generations: Jia Pingwa, and Yu Hua and Liang Hong.