Crosscurrent

Name: Crosscurrent
Genre: Drama
Released: October 28, 2016
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 49

2016

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| Release Date: October 28, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: From the Shanghai metropolis to the snow-capped Tibet mountain, Gao Chun steers his cargo up the Yangtze, a river that has nurtured a centuries-old civilization. He comes across An Lu, a beautiful woman who appears in a different identity at every port recorded by a poetry book. Longing for her company, he realizes she gradually turnsFrom the Shanghai metropolis to the snow-capped Tibet mountain, Gao Chun steers his cargo up the Yangtze, a river that has nurtured a centuries-old civilization. He comes across An Lu, a beautiful woman who appears in a different identity at every port recorded by a poetry book. Longing for her company, he realizes she gradually turns younger as he journeys upstream. He starts to wonder whether An Lu is supernatural or he is traveling not only in space but also in time. After passing a pagoda that reverberates Buddha’s voice, a flooded town reappeared elsewhere, the grandiose Three Gorges Dam and many other places where lives have been transformed, he finally arrives at the start of the Yangtze, where he unveils the secret of his past and An Lu. [Berlinale]… Expand

Director: Yang Chao

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 116 min

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Patrick Gamble

Oct 24, 2016

Rarely has China's explosive economic growth been captured with such grace and with such a heavy heart. Read full review

The Playlist Chris Evangelista

Nov 16, 2016

As a visual love-letter to the Yangtze River, Crosscurrent takes your breath away. As a narrative film, it’s all washed up. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Oct 27, 2016

Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China’s painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Oct 24, 2016

A meandering, sluggish tale that offers moments of great beauty but ultimately feels like a ragbag, take-your-pick bundle of poetic and spiritual suggestions inspired by China’s great Yangtze River. Read full review

Deborah Young

Oct 24, 2016

It’s all about metaphor and mood, while the storytelling is so lightweight it might not exist. Without it, this drunken boat sailing on poetry can't hold interest for its entire two hour running time. Read full review

The Film Stage Zhuo-Ning Su

Nov 3, 2016

Crosscurrent represents quite a remarkable blunder considering how much effort and noble aspirations go to waste because its maker forgot to tell a good story first. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Oct 24, 2016

Plotless, pretentiously literary and lousy at explaining geography, the movie fails to put Yang’s vision into a fictional framework that’s even remotely engaging. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jun 6, 2021

A very beautiful film, but one that relies entirely on being atmospheric rather than narrative driven.

It is symbolic, reflective and sentimental, evoking the cost of progress and change, so an aura of melancholy permeates throughout its duration. It's a bit stuffy, and can be a bitA very beautiful film, but one that relies entirely on being atmospheric rather than narrative driven.

It is symbolic, reflective and sentimental, evoking the cost of progress and change, so an aura of melancholy permeates throughout its duration.

It's a bit stuffy, and can be a bit exasperating because of its slowness, but I still liked it.… Expand

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