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The World
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures.
- Romance.
- Science fiction.
- Satire.
- Motion pictures--China.
- Motion pictures--Asia.
- Fantasy films.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (140 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 2004
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2025
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- An at once intimate and expansive exploration of globalization from visionary director Jia Zhangke, THE WORLD takes place in the eponymous theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, where iconic monuments from the Eiffel Tower to the Taj Mahal are reproduced for tourists. It's there that the park's employees-including a dancer and a security guard-drift together and are pulled apart in a cycle of connection and alienation that speaks eloquently to the effects of China's rapid modernization
- Participant:
- Hongwei Wang, Jue Jing, Sanming Han, Taishen Cheng, Tao Zhao, Xiaoshuai Wang
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 2004
- Publisher Number:
- 16521696 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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