Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival (and nominated for the Palme d’Or), this pessimistic Chinese drama takes its...
Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival (and nominated for the Palme d’Or), this pessimistic Chinese drama takes its inspiration from true crime events as it examines the country's everyday violence via four interlinked tales. From writer/director Zhangke Jia (Still Life).
A fired miner seeks revenge on the corporate stooges that put him out of work; a migrant worker returning home for a family birthday discovers a gun and new possibilities; a massage parlour hostess is pushed to breaking point by a client; and a young man seeks a desperate solution when unable to successfully start a new life.
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94 %90 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
74 %3,916 reviewsAudience score rating
"Unquestionably Jia's most mainstream-friendly work, if also his most schematic and, blades aside, least penetrating"
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Variety
Variety"It's travelogue cinema for the dissolute and gravely disenfranchised."
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Time Out
Time Out"In Jia's methodically furious vision, the ambient violence of unchecked power erupts among the insulted and injured with a horrific yet liberating sense of destruction and self-destruction."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China... at once monumental and human scale."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"This is a bitter, jagged, disaffected drama, pessimistic about China, pessimistic about the whole world."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Impassioned admirers of maverick Chinese writer-director Jia Zhang-ke's work may get on board, but new converts seem unlikely."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterA Touch of Sin | Details
Award winner- Winner of Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2013.
- Rating
- MA15+, Strong violence
- Runtime
- 133
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- China
