New US Trailer for Jia Zhangke’s ‘Caught by the Tides’ with Zhao Tao
by Alex Billington
April 18, 2025
Supply: YouTube
“Fastidiously crafted to interrupt your coronary heart. Merely gorgeous.” Janus Movies has debuted the official US trailer for Caught by the Tides, the most recent creation of beloved Chinese language filmmaker Jia Zhangke. This premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant final yr and critics cherished it there. It is a distinctive new creation that’s made up of varied bits of footage from his earlier movies and different tasks. He shot just a few new scenes so as to add in as properly. A Chinese language lady lives for herself in silence, celebrating the affluent Belle Epoque with songs and dance. Caught by the Tides follows his eternally magnetic muse Zhao Tao throughout many years in China. “Telling a love story in three elements spanning greater than twenty years, Jia gives a summing up earlier than he turns a brand new web page.” The movie additionally co-stars Zhubin Li as her mysterious elusive lover… She by no means speaks a single line of dialogue within the movie, because it follows her strolling via an evolving, altering China. “The at all times fascinating Zhao Tao carries the movie together with her delicate expressiveness, whereas Jia continually evokes cinema’s capacity to seize the passage of time and the persistence of change: of individuals, landscapes, cities, politics, concepts.” The movie is a should look ahead to any/each cinephile – catch it displaying in artwork home theaters all through the summer time.
Here is the official US trailer (+ poster) for Jia Zhangke’s movie Caught by the Tides, direct from YouTube:
The preeminent dramatist of China’s speedy Twenty first-century progress and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest method to narrative but together with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mixture of fiction and documentary, that includes a cascade of photographs taken from earlier motion pictures, unused scenes, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Jia’s Caught by the Tides is a free-flowing work of unstated longing, carried alongside extra by music than dialogue because it looms across the edges of a poignant love story. The movie largely adheres to the angle of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao) as she wanders an more and more unrecognizable nation in quest of long-lost lover Bin (Li Zhubin), who left their house metropolis of Datong looking for new monetary prospects. Caught by the Tides is written and directed by acclaimed Chinese language filmmaker Jia Zhangke, director of the movies Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures, Nonetheless Life, 24 Metropolis, A Contact of Sin, Mountains Could Depart, and Ash Is Purest White beforehand, in addition to the docs Dong, Wuyong, Yulu, and Swimming Out Until the Sea Turns Blue. Produced by Casper Liang Jiayan, Shôzô Ichiyama. It first premiered on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant final yr. Janus Movies will debut Caught by the Tides in choose US theaters on Could ninth, 2025 this summer time.
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