The World (Shijie)
The dazzling new film from acclaimed director Jia Zhangke focuses on a young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others who work at World Park, a bizarre theme park where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs. Lavish daily shows are performed amongst replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers. However the real-life problems and sufferings of this young generation are only put into relief by this facade of cosmopolitanism and Chinese "modernisation".
Reviews
“From the sensational opening tracking shot to the flurry of animated punctuation, Jia's first government-sanctioned film is his most flamboyant yet.”
Dennis Lim, Variety
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When
4:00 PM Saturday, 26 February
Buy Tickets Online
Greater Union - Cinema 1
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
As Part Of
Architecture + FilmAbout The World
140 minutes35mm
2.35:1
Dolby Digital SRD
In Mandarin with English subtitles
Print Source
Celluloid Dreams
Pascale Ramonda
pascale@celluloid-dreams.com
Festivals
New York 2004Thessaloniki 2004
Toronto 2004
Vancouver 2004
Venice 2004
Vienna 2004
About the Director
Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke was born in 1970 in Fenyang, China. At the age of 18 he studied painting in Taiyuan and three years later he took up fiction writing and wrote his first novel. In 1993 Jia was admitted to the prestigious Beijing Film Academy. He has made a number of shorts and some of the most exciting features to come from the mainland in the past decade.
Filmography
The World (2004)Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Platform (2000)
Xiao Wu (1997)
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