The Shadowless Tower

Name: The Shadowless Tower
Genre: Drama
Released: March 15, 2024
Duration: 144 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Bai Qing Xin, Gaowa Siqin, Hongwei Wang, Qinqin Li, Wanting Liu

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 15, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Bai Qing Xin, Gaowa Siqin, Hongwei Wang, Qinqin Li, Wanting Liu, Yao Huang, Yiwen Wang, Zhuangzhuang Tian

Summary: Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover. WhileGu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover. While the seasons come and go, people get together and move apart. Only one thing will remain the same: The White Pagoda where they all meet sooner or later…… Expand

Director: Lu Zhang

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 144 min

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The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

Feb 25, 2023

Scenes do not begin or end in The Shadowless Tower so much as bleed and spill into each other, inviting you into a dreamscape where the boundary between fact and mirage is purposely blurry. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Feb 25, 2023

As The Shadowless Tower ambles onward, it reveals its arcs of change not in dramatic showdowns or sudden revelations, but in ellipses, in the occasional mysterious fold in chronology and, most rewardingly, in the casual, unforced repetition of certain motifs. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Feb 25, 2023

The film’s delicacy of touch comes through not only in the bittersweet love story at its centre, but in a wealth of seemingly marginal details. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Mar 14, 2024

This movie opens itself to you with its feeling for people, its grace notes and a few bravura moments that close the distance between characters beautifully. Read full review

Robert Abele

Apr 2, 2024

Zhang uses quiet to suggest an active calmness, so when a particular sound punctures the air — gurgling water, the music on a videotape, a child’s questions — it feels like the notes of life, the stuff that’s supposed to spark us. Read full review

Jake Cole

Oct 9, 2023

The characters’ generational angst humanizes the film’s view of a nation at a crossroads. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 25, 2023

Chinese writer-director Zhang Lu’s minor-key drama will be too muted and elusive to break beyond festivals, but its melancholy spell stays with you. Read full review

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