介绍:
The movie tells a story of a family's life from China to Australia, their loves, hopes and disillusions over two generations in a society changing at breakneck speed.
There are three-time frames in the movie representing the past, present and future.
Director Jia, who has been recognized internationally for winning the Venice Film Festival's top Golden Lion award for Still Life, or San-Xia-Hao-Ren, explains the reason why he'd decided to unfold the film from the year of 1999.
"1999 is the year when the new technologies came out starting to influence our life and emotions. Take me as an example: I owned my first cell phone around that year. Then, as the Internet began to sweep around China in 1999, I opened my first E-mail account."
The film unfolds predominately in the director's own hometown of Fenyang in China's northern Shanxi province, beginning in 1999, continuing in 2014, and ending in the near-future year of 2025.
Tao, a young girl born in the small city of Fenyang, stays at the center of the story. She has a childhood friend Liangzi, who works at the local coal mine and has clearly been in love with her forever.
But after Zhang Jinsheng, the owner of the mine, makes his move to seek love from Tao, Tao has decided to marry Jinsheng, who is a rich man that owns a flashy new car and wads of money.
Lead actress of the film Zhao Tao is director Jia Zhangke's wife, and also his long-term heroine.
However in Zhao Tao's opinion, wealth is not the key that eventually enables Zhang Jinsheng to win over Liangzi's stalwart devotion.
"In fact, the most essential reason for Jinsheng's success in capturing Tao's heart is that he is concerned about Tao's innermost feelings. Hence, my conclusion is that high EQ is very important in maintaining a romantic relationship. As for Liangzi, he is an introverted and silent boy who chases a girl only by telling her his affections."
In fact, the love story didn't end at the point when Tao and Jinzheng get married, but continue to extend even on their son, Dollar Zhang, who grows up in Australia and has entirely forgotten how to speak Mandarin Chinese.
A somewhat unconvincing romance blossoms between Dollar and a divorced college professor, played by the legendary movie star and writer Sylvia Chang (张艾嘉).
"Mountains May Depart"is a movie about human affections and how time can change them. And it realizes director Jia's long-time wish to shoot a film in the romantic genre.
"I haven't shot a film revolving around love for quite a long time, and I have been dying to produce one around the subject of love in recent two to three years. This movie is about reminiscing bygone relationship, embracing new love, and imagining what it will be like in the future."
The English-speaking film, which was once screened at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, is scheduled to hit mainland cinemas on October 30.
For Studio Plus, I'm Xu Fei.
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