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The film, depicts the life of Tao, and those close to her, explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025. Lyrical, moving, and dazzlingly ambitious, Mountains May Depart is one of the year's most important films.
Like most of the indispensable Jia's work, this triptych film, which jumps from 1999 to 2014 and then to 2025, is intimately engaged in the push-pull between tradition and progress.
Jia's languid style and exquisite framing complement his understated approach to the material, which opts for depth over melodrama. But "Mountains May Depart" is grounded in Zhao's delicate performance, which is her best.