Unknown Pleasures

Name: Unknown Pleasures
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 26, 2003
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 61

2003

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: March 26, 2003

Summary: A harrowing account of disillusioned young people living in China. (New Yorker Films)

Director: Zhang Ke Jia

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 112 min

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J. Hoberman

Unknown Pleasures suggests a coolly formalist reinvention of neorealism. The film is both distanced and immediate -- a fiction with the force of documentary. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

A stunning study of ennui. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

There's a telling disjunction between the dismal lives of Jia's characters and the optimism of China's officially sunny advance into the 21st century, and their helplessness often becomes a pathetic pantomime. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Perhaps the world doesn't need another picture on disaffected youth, but Pleasures is about more than alienation. Read full review

C.W. Nevius

The story goes nowhere...We don't understand the motivation of the characters. Read full review

David Sterritt

This sequel to Jia's excellent 1997 drama "Xiao Wu" is less original and absorbing than its predecessor, and less visually impressive than "Platform," his 2000 look at Chinese sociopolitical change. Read full review

Shawn Levy

The film drags and lingers and goes more or less nowhere, imitating its protagonists' lives so exactly that you want to give them both a good smack. Read full review

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