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Director
  
Music director
  
Yoshihiro Hanno

Duration
  

Country
  
China

7.4/10
IMDb


Genre
  
Drama, History

Screenplay
  
Writer
  
Zhangke Jia

Language
  
Mandarin

Platform (2000 film) movie poster

Release date
  
September 4, 2000 (2000-09-04) (Venice)

Initial release
  
July 7, 2001 (New York City)

Cast
  
(Yin Ruijuan),
Hongwei Wang
(Cui Minliang),
Jing Dong Liang
(Chang Jun),
Tian Yi Yang
(Zhong Pin)

Similar movies
  
Related Jia Zhangke movies

Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China (Jia's birthplace), from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.

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Platform has garnered wide acclaim from critics in the years since its release, and is often named one of the greatest films of the 2000s.

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Plot

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The film starts in 1979 in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. A theatre troupe of young adults in Fenyang performs state-approved material. The troupe includes Cui Minliang and his friends, Yin Ruijuan, Zhang Jun, and Zhong Ping. Zhang and Zhong are together. Cui asks Yin if she is his girlfriend, but she replies that she is not. The troupe leaves their hometown and travels throughout the country for several years during the 1980s. Yin stays behind in Fenyang and becomes a tax collector. The authorities find out about the illegal sexual relationship between Zhang and Zhong, and Zhong then leaves the group, never to return. As China undergoes massive social changes, the troupe alters their performances and starts to play rock music. They eventually return to Fenyang. Cui, jaded by his years on the road, reunites with Yin.

Cast

Platform (2000 film) Platform Film Review Slant Magazine

  • Wang Hongwei – Cui Minliang
  • Zhao Tao – Yin Ruijuan
  • Liang Jingdong – Zhang Jun
  • Yang Tianyi – Zhong Ping
  • Wang Bo – Yao Eryong
  • Han Sanming – Sanming
  • Critical reception

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    Platform was voted the second best film of the past decade by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)'s Cinematheque, by more than 60 film experts (historians, archivists, etc.) from around the world. Another film by Jia Zhangke, Still Life, was voted the third best film. Platform placed 32 on Slant Magazine's list of the 100 best films of the 2000s and was named as one of Sight & Sound's films of the 2000s.

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    The film has a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

    Awards

    Platform (2000 film) Platform Film Review Slant Magazine

  • Venice Film Festival, 2000
  • Netpac Award
  • Three Continents Festival, 2000
  • Golden Montgolfiere
  • Singapore International Film Festival, 2000
  • SFC Young Cinema Award
  • Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2001
  • Best Film
  • Fribourg International Film Festival, 2001
  • Don Quixote Award
  • FIPRESCI Prize

  • Platform (2000 film) Platform 2000 Jia ZhangKe Brandons movie memory

    References

    Platform (2000 film) Wikipedia
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