CAUGHT BY THE TIDES

  • May 30 - June 16, 2025
  • Time & Space Limited

    434 Columbia Street
    Hudson, New York 12534
Ticket Price $9.44-$11.54 Buy Tickets
Description

The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhang-ke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies, unused scenes, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Caught by the Tides is a free-flowing work of unspoken longing, carried along more by music than dialogue as it looms around the edges of a poignant love story. The film mostly adheres to the perspective of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao) as she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of long-lost lover Bin (Li Zhubin), who left their home city of Datong seeking new financial prospects. The always captivating Zhao carries the film with her delicate expressiveness, while Jia constantly evokes cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change: of people, landscapes, cities, politics, ideas. Chinese with English subtitles.

 

Date & Time

May 30 - Jun 16, 2025

Venue Details

Time & Space Limited

434 Columbia Street
Hudson, New York 12534 Time & Space Limited