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Jia Zhang-Ke's film in Mandarin and Shanghai dialect with English subtitles, follows four performers in the state-run Fenyang Peasant Culture Group. As China begins to move toward Western-influenced consumer capitalism, the group starts to sport spandex and play electric guitars. . "An intellectually engaging movie" New York Times. DVD features include an interview with the Director, behind-the-scenes, foreign trailer & more. Examining the transition in 1980s China away from Maoism and socialism and towards commercialism, Westernization, and popular culture, PLATFORM comes from director Jia Zhang Ke. The film follows a group of performing artists who change with the cultural and political changes in China, becoming less and less humble and more and more like Western rock stars. A film that creatively depicts an important chapter in Chinese history, PLATFORM has been compared to BOOGIE NIGHTS and BYE BYE BRAZIL.
Theatrical screening: October 8, 2000 as part of the 38th New York Film Festival.
PLATFORM was named Best Undistributed Film by Take Two: the Second Annual Village Voice Film Critics' Poll, and Film Comment named it the second best unreleased film of the year. Platform Reviews: "...Conceptually, this is a provocative approach to filmmaking, and it makes PLATFORM an intellectually engaging movie..."
-- A. O. Scott, New York Times
This is the only Hong Wei Wang video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Tao Zhao, Zhang Ke Jia. Platform | Studio | New Yorker Video | | Orig Year | 2000 | | All Time Sales Rank |  53029  | | CD Universe Part number | 6880185 | | Catalog number | 87905D | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 01, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 150 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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