Platform (Chinese: ç«™å°; pinyin: Zhà ntái) is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.
It is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China, from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. Fenyang was also the birthplace of director Jia Zhangke. The film is called "an epic of grassroots".
It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes.
Dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin.
The film was voted the second best film of the past decade by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)'s Cinematheque, by more than 60 film experts (historians, archivists, etc.) from around the world. Another film by Jia Zhangke, Still Life, was voted the third best film. Platform placed 32 on Slant Magazine's list of the 100 best films of the 2000s and was named as one of Sight & Sound’s films of the 2000s.
Cast
- Wang Hongwei â€" Cui Minliang
- Zhao Tao â€" Yin Ruijuan
- Liang Jingdong â€" Zhang Jun
- Yang Tianyi â€" Zhong Ping
- Wang Bo â€" Yao Eryong
Awards and nominations
- Venice Film Festival, 2000
- Golden Lion â€" nominee
- Netpac Award
- Nantes Three Continents Festival, 2000
- Golden Montgolfiere
- Singapore International Film Festival, 2000
- SFC Young Cinema Award
- Silver Screen Award-Best Asian Feature Film (nominated)
- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2001
- Best Film
- Fribourg International Film Festival, 2001
- Don Quixote Award
- FIPRESCI Prize
References
External links
- Platform at the Internet Movie Database
- Platform at AllMovie
- Platform at Rotten Tomatoes
- Postsocialist Grit An essay on ideology and aesthetics in Platform and Unknown Pleasures at Offscreen Journal
