Jia Zhangke on Using Space as a Narrative Function | Meet the Filmmakers

Jia Zhangke's CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (2024) will have its exclusive streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel starting August 5! Alongside the film, you can watch a new Meet the Filmmakers interview with the visionary director, excerpted here. The latest feature from the visionary director is an entirely original, captivating epic that draws on a 23-year collaboration between Jia and actors Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin, casting them as a pair of estranged lovers, tracking these characters across an increasingly alien China as they age in real time, from the dawn of the millennium to the COVID-19 era. Observing the future-shock developments transforming his country, Jia constructs a sensorially immersive, emotionally profound portrait of both a world in flux and two people navigating its uncertain currents.