‘Caught By The Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke’s Romance Is All Mood; Substance Is Harder To Come By – Cannes Film Festival
deadline.comStalwart Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides, which tries too hard to play with time and form for the connection between its leads to be its central preoccupation.
Measured in silence interspersed with moments of dance and music — both performed and for pleasure — Qiaoqiao (Zhao) starts a relationship with the mysterious young Guo Bin (Li Zhubin) when she spots him across a dance floor.
But their happily ever after isn’t to be when Bin grows frustrated and seeks an escape from their home in Datong, in the north of China.
Qiaoqiao, confused by his sudden disappearance, goes in search of him, but his new life doesn’t seem to have a place for her.
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