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Mountains May Depart

Original title: Shan he gu ren
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 6m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
6.1K
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Tao Zhao in Mountains May Depart (2015)
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
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The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

  • Director
    • Zhangke Jia
  • Writer
    • Zhangke Jia
  • Stars
    • Tao Zhao
    • Yi Zhang
    • Jing Dong Liang
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    6.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Zhangke Jia
    • Writer
      • Zhangke Jia
    • Stars
      • Tao Zhao
      • Yi Zhang
      • Jing Dong Liang
    • 25User reviews
    • 130Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 26 wins & 42 nominations

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    Trailer 1:56
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    Tao Zhao and Yi Zhang in Mountains May Depart (2015)
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    Tao Zhao
    Tao Zhao
    • Shen Tao
    • (as Zhao Tao)
    Yi Zhang
    Yi Zhang
    • Zhang Jinsheng
    • (as Zhang Yi)
    Jing Dong Liang
    • Liang Jangjung aka Liangzi
    • (as Liang Jingdong)
    Zijian Dong
    Zijian Dong
    • Zhang Daole aka Dollar
    • (as Dong Zijian)
    Sylvia Chang
    Sylvia Chang
    • Mia
    Sanming Han
    Sanming Han
    • Liangzi's friend
    Patrick Harvey
    • Train Passenger
    Russell Lambe
    • Golfer
    Lu Liu
    Lu Liu
    • Liang's Wife
    Min Liu
    Zishan Rong
    Zishan Rong
    • Zhang Daole aka Dollar (Child)
    Anna Sasson
    • Travel clerk
    Yee Yang
    • Travel clerk
    • Director
      • Zhangke Jia
    • Writer
      • Zhangke Jia
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Some sequences (in the 1999 segment) were filmed by the director and the cinematographer back in 2001.
    • Goofs
      The young boy who plays Tao's son in 2014 is also part of the crowd of children that watches her perform at the new year's celebrations in 1999.
    • Quotes

      Mia: The hardest thing about love is caring.

    • Crazy credits
      The title appears more than forty minutes after the beginning of the movie.
    • Soundtracks
      Go West
      Written by Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali and Victor Willis, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe

      Performed by Pet Shop Boys

    User reviews25

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    Featured review
    10/10
    Mountains may depart, and so do people ...
    Reading the reviews, you might suspect this to be a sophisticated, political film. You couldn't be more wrong: there's nothing sophisticated about it, it's about a heart that breaks over time.

    The story follows a woman, and two men from different social status (a mine worker and a director), who both love her. Eventually she has to decide for one of them, but as time goes by, she wonders whether she made the right choice or not. Told over a time span of 25 years, the film shows like few others how time changes our society, affects the private lives of individuals. Especially the last part set in 2025 is masterfully done, it could have turned out sophisticated, instead it hits right into the heart.

    The film says that things like social status and language do change our daily lives, and those changes can never be undone again.

    The usage of the movie format is genius (even more then in Xavier Dolan's 'Mommy'), it tells us, that even though the future broadens our perspective, it also makes us lose focus of what is truly essential to live a happy life.
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    • simon-wang
    • Apr 14, 2016

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 30, 2015 (China)
    • Countries of origin
      • China
      • France
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Chinese
      • Mandarin
      • Cantonese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 山河故人
    • Filming locations
      • Fenyang, Shanxi, China(Tao's home town)
    • Production companies
      • Shanghai Film Group
      • Xstream Pictures
      • MK2 Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $82,913
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,550
      • Feb 14, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,215,660
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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