24 City Chinese literally The Story ofCity is a 2008 film directed and cowritten by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu in the 1950s, the 1970s and the present as a stateowned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex. The film was also known as The Story ofCity during production.
The Hollywood Reporter called the film a moving elegy to modernday China and said of the films documentary strain that it prevails to simple, yet emotionally reverberating effect.Time also reviewed the film favorably the film interweaves the political overview of a city institution being torn down to be replaced by commercial and residential buildings with personal anecdotes that are poignant and charming. ........
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