Crosscurrent Cheng Cheng Films

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

Cheng Cheng Films (Firm)

Language:

Chinese

English

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 55 min., 38 sec)) sound

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2023

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Cheng Cheng Films, [2016]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

A Berlinale Silver Bear winner from master cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (In the Mood for Love, The Assassin), this mysterious, sublime and elegiac odyssey blends breathtaking images of the river that has nurtured Chinese civilization with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex universe. From the spinning Shanghai metropolis to snow-capped Tibet mountains, Gao Chun steers a cargo up the Yangtze and comes across a reversely aging woman named An Lu at every port recorded in a poetry book. He wonders whether she is supernatural or he is traveling back in time. After passing a pagoda that reverberates Buddha's voice, a flooded town reappeared elsewhere and the grandiose Three Gorges Dam, he finally arrives at the start of the river and unveils the secret of his past and An Lu. Also released as Chang Jiang Tu. Silver Berlin Bear-Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlin International Film Festival, 2016. Jury Grand Prize, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2016. Nominated for Best Director, China Film Director's Guild Awards, 2017. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Directed by Chao Yang. China

Notes:

Originally released by Cheng Cheng Films, 2016

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 20, 2023

Title from distributor's description

Publisher Number:

284199 Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license