Ash is the Purest White

Drama Rated: R 122 min
FilmColumbia 2018
Tuesday, October 23
2:30pm
The Crandell Theatre
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Jia Zhang-ke is one of the world’s great filmmakers and Ash is the Purest White is a brilliant example of his mastery. It is part martial arts gangster thriller, part love story, part social critique, the part awesomely beautiful. Told in three sections, it portrays the tortured relationship between Qiao, a tough young woman, and Bin, a low-level mobster in 2001, in 2006, and finally in 2018 when changes in China have so altered the mores of a nation that it seems China has swallowed America whole. A Palme d’Or nominee at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

directed by
Jia Zhang-ke
written by
Jia Zhang-ke
with
Zhao Tao, Liao Fan
language
Mandarin (with English subtitles)
country
China/France