"Carefully crafted to break your heart. Simply stunning." Janus Films has debuted the official US trailer for Caught by the Tides, the latest creation of beloved Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. This premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival last year and critics loved it there. It's a unique new creation that is made up of various bits of footage from his previous films and other projects. He shot a few new scenes to add in as well. A Chinese woman lives for herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance. Caught by the Tides follows his eternally magnetic muse Zhao Tao across decades in China. "Telling a love story in three parts spanning more than twenty years, Jia offers a summing up before he turns a new page." The film also co-stars Zhubin Li as her mysterious elusive lover... She never speaks a single line of dialogue in the film, as it follows her strolling through an evolving, changing China. "The always captivating Zhao Tao carries the film with her delicate expressiveness, while Jia constantly evokes cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change: of people, landscapes, cities, politics, ideas." The film is a must watch for any/every cinephile - catch it showing in art house theaters throughout the summer. // Continue Reading ›