Caught by the Tides Blu-ray

In this visionary chronicle of China’s turbulent new century, acclaimed director Jia Zhang-Ke embarks on a kaleidoscopic odyssey across time and space, incorporating footage captured for his previous films into an entirely original, captivating epic. Drawing on a twenty-three-year collaboration between Jia and actors Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin, Caught by the Tides casts them as a pair of estranged lovers, tracking these characters across an increasingly alien China as they age in real time, from the dawn of the millennium to the COVID-19 era. Observing the future-shock developments transforming his country, Jia constructs a sensorially immersive, emotionally profound portrait of both a world in flux and two people navigating its uncertain currents.
 
 
Film Info
 
China 
2024
111 minutes
Color
1.33:1, 1:85:1, 2.39:1
Mandarin 
 
INCLUDES
 
Meet the Filmmakers: Jia Zhang-Ke, a Criterion Channel original interview
Trailer
Notes by film critic Carlos Aguilar