“From the very first shot the director demonstrates his ability of telling stories in a visually innovative way,” noted the international jury of the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg when they honored Zhao Dayong's first fiction feature with the Werner Fassbinder Prize in November 2010 . . . The film, which had won two prizes upon its world premiere in Hong Kong, was also awarded the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at Mannheim-Heidelberg -- the jury calling it a “vivid, sardonic portrait of the daily hustle in post-communist China, ingeniously linking a pyramid scheme, a policeman poet and a scrappy, petty street criminal.”
Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese with English subtitles.
Read more about the film in the Our Films section of our website.
The High Life was screened most recently at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2011), and at the San Francisco International Film Festival, where it had its U.S. premiere in competition.
Lantern Films is pleased to announce the New York premiere of Zhao Dayong’s award-winning film THE HIGH LIFE, which will be running for a full week this month at the Museum of Modern Art. THE HIGH LIFE is showing as part of MOMA’s ContemporAsian series (See details here). Days and times are as follows: Monday, … Continue reading
Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei.com, a Beijing-based website on media and culture in China, interviews director Zhao Dayong about The High Life, Ghost Town, My Father’s House and other Lantern Films productions. Interview with Chinese film director Zhao Dayong from Danwei on Vimeo.
Slant magazine has listed Lantern Films production Ghost Town as No. 21 on its list of the top 100 films released to the screen in 2010.
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