#ash is purest white
The worst is when your attention revolves only in a person the whole time that when he’s gone for a long time and you meet again, the first sentence you’ll gonna say is, “Come back to me.”
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
One of our favorite films of the 2018 festival circuit is finally hitting the US on March 15. And in honor of “Ash is Purest White” arriving in theaters, we are thrilled to be giving away a poster signed by the film’s incredible helmer Jia Zhangke.
To win the poster, all you have to do is follow us on Tumblr, FacebookandTwitter, and tweet: “I want to win the ‘Ash is Purest White’ Signed Poster from @ThePlaylist. #WinThePlaylistContest,” and include the URL of the contest. Your final step: just email us your tweet to [email protected], with your full name and address, and tell us the name of your favorite foreign-language film.
“Ash is Purest White” hits theaters on March 15. You can watch the trailerhere.
Here’s the synopsis for “Ash is Purest White:”
ASH IS PUREST WHITE follows the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives. ASH continues Jia Zhangke’s epic body of work as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations.
“In the films of her husband and ongoing collaborator Jia Zhangke, Zhao Tao has burrowed into each of her central roles with the prowess of a performer willing to discard any and all traces of herself in the name of her characters. She is that phenomenal being: an actor entirely without vanity. Her performances exist where Jia’s work exists—at the intersection of life and art, a place where the differences between reality and fiction cease to matter. In Ash Is Purest White, Zhao applies her extraordinary, unselfish talent to the transmogrifying arc of Qiao, a gangster’s moll forced to build her life anew after making the ultimate sacrifice for her inamorato. As she did in her previous film with Jia, Mountains May Depart, the actress ages decades across this personal epic, relying not so much on conspicuous cosmetic transformation or surface-bound tics to signal maturation but her unadorned face, which can express anything and everything; here, it manages to contain and communicate a lifetime of anguish and lasting passion. By stripping her style down to the wordless, elemental basics of screen acting, Zhao makes certain that the clarity of Qiao’s emotions and her durable connection to the audience are never diminished. In doing so, she continues to occupy her rightful place as the heart—and breath—of Jia’s lifelike cinema.” — Matthew Eng
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(Source:TribecaFilm.com)
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