At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
Direction
Jia Zhangke's patient, documentarian eye finds poetry in mundanity.
Cinematography
Artificial monuments dwarf real people — devastating visual metaphor.
Acting
Zhao Tao's restrained devastation will wreck you.
Director
Jia Zhangke
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