Why is Jia Zhangke so famous?

Jia Zhangke was born in Fenyang, Shanxi, China in 1970. He was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1993. In order to realize his childhood dream of being a director, he organized the "Youth Film Experimental Group" and thus began his film practice. In 1995, he shot his first 57-minute short film "The Mountain Comes Home", which won the Grand Prize at the Hong Kong Film Festival. Although this was not a successful work, it provided Jia Zhangke with an opportunity to start his famous work "Xiao Wu". In this film, his unique perspective and emotional style are fully and deeply expressed for the first time. "Xiao Wu" was widely praised internationally and won 8 awards. It also became the target of domestic petty bourgeoisie youth. Jia Zhangke became famous in one fell swoop. At that time, the French "Cahiers du Cinema" commented: ""Xiao Wu" breaks away from the conventions of Chinese films and is a film that marks the revival and vitality of Chinese films." German film critic Ulrich Greger called him " Asian cinema’s lightning-dazzling ray of hope.”

Later, Jia Zhangke shot several feature films such as "Platform", "Ren Xiaoyao", and "The World". In 2006, while filming the documentary "East", he decided to film the feature film "The Good Man of Three Gorges". The film won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival that year. Jia Zhangke's status as the leader of China's sixth generation of directors has been established.

At a time when Chinese films are collectively surrendering to Hollywood and sinking into illusory non-realistic themes, Jia Zhangke’s strong humanistic focus on Chinese reality is particularly valuable. From the beginning of "Xiao Wu" to the rave reviews of "Three Gorges", Jia Zhangke's video world is gradually becoming a special way to understand China, and is also reinterpreting the realism of Chinese films.

Compared with the once popular critical realism, Jia Zhangke’s narrative is more calm and unassuming. He never makes simple moral judgments, but expands them one by one through a distinctive documentary style; in line with modern Compared with nihilism, Jia Zhangke never makes any mysteries, focusing on the minutiae of historical changes, maintaining a warm tone in the cold reality.

How to cut into reality is difficult for many directors, but Jia Zhangke does it with ease. This comes from his unique perspective and sensitive mentality, and he can always find his own way to reconstruct historical memories: "Xiao Wu" "The calm lens and documentary style in "The World" immediately reshape the feelings of a generation from the complicated changes; "The World" expresses China's changes on a larger scale; "Three Gorges Good Man" not only shows a broad picture of social changes , and fictionality is placed within documentary narratives. His movies have their own world, and they are thinking about the meaning of the changes in this world in their own way.

Therefore, if Jia Zhangke is considered in a larger historical context, the biggest wave he has caused cannot even be summarized in a few movies. Looking back ten years later, the textual meaning of Jia Zhangke’s images is precisely a thrilling record of ancient China that is undergoing drastic changes in globalization. All the details have settled into the undercurrent of time, leaving behind silence. moving expressions and immortal swan songs. As he himself said: "I want to use movies to care about ordinary people. First of all, I must respect secular life. In the slow process of time, I can feel the joy or heaviness of every ordinary life."

Jia Zhangke He once said, "When a society is moving forward in a hurry, you cannot ignore the person you knocked down just because you want to move forward." In the past 10 years, he has been unique and used his The language of the lens is used to describe the price that ordinary people have to bear and the changes in destiny in an era of huge social transformation.

First Prize of the Youth Forum of the 48th Berlin International Film Festival: Wolfgang Stowe Award

Asian Film Promotion Alliance Award of the 48th Berlin International Film Festival

< p> Best Film at the 20th Tricontinental Film Festival in Nantes, France: Golden Balloon Award, Best Actress Award

17th Vancouver International Film Festival: Dragon and Tiger Award

The 3rd Busan International Film Festival: New Trend Award

The 98th Annual Award of the Belgian Film Archive: Golden Age Award

The 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival First Prize: SKYY Award< /p>

Best Film Award at the Atria International Film Festival in Italy in 1999

Official entry for the 2000 Venice International Film Festival, Best Asian Film Award

2000 Won the Best Film and Best Director Award at the Three Continents International Film Festival in Nantes, France

In 2001, he won the Don Quixote Award and the FIPRESCI International Film Critics Award at the Friborg International Film Festival in Switzerland

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Won the Youth Film Award at the Singapore International Film Festival in 2001

Won the Best Film Award at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival in 2001

Won the 2001 No. Best Screenplay Award at the 30th Montreal International New Film and New Media Festival

One of the top ten films of the year in French "Cahiers du Cinéma" in 2002

In 2002, the annual film in Japan's "Film Weekly" One of the top ten films

In 1979, China began to implement the policy of "reform and opening up".

The 55th Cannes International Film Festival Official Competition Film

The 16th Singapore International Film Festival International Film Critics Special Award

2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nomination

One of the top ten best films of the year by the American "Film Review" in 2002

The official competition film of the 61st Venice International Film Festival

The 6th The Golden Count Award for Best Film and the Best Cinematography Award at the Palmas International Film Festival in Spain

The Jury Prize at the 11th Vesour International Film Festival in France

The 7th Dewey in France Golden Lotus Award for Best Screenplay at the Seoul International Film Festival

Toronto Film Critics Association 2005 Best Foreign Language Film Award

The 63rd Venice International Film Festival Horizon Section Competition Film

Italian Documentary Association Best Documentary Award

Italian Art Association 2006 Open Award

2006 Taipei International Documentary Biennale Best Asian Documentary Award

No. Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival

Best Film Award at the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival in Australia

Best Director at the 28th Durban International Film Festival in South Africa Award

2007 Hong Kong International Film Festival "Asian Film Awards" Best Director Award

2007 Norwegian FIPRESCI International Film Critics Award

In 2008, Jia Zhangke's new film "24 Cities" was shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival, but failed to win. It was also selected for the New York Film Festival from September to October.