Movie2025·JP, CN, FR·1h 51min

Caught by the Tides

Name: Caught by the Tides
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-01-08T00:00:00Z
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.82
Cast: Zhao Tao, Jia Zhangke, Zhubin Li, Pan Jianlin, Zhou Lan

风流一代

A film over 20 years in the making.

Drama

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Premiere

Jan2025

Studios

Ad Vitam Production Bitters End Huanxi Media Momo Pictures Wishart Media Xstream Pictures mk2 Films

Box office

Gross$254

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Synopsis

Caught by the Tides (风流一代, 2025) — stream this Chinese drama online on iFILM: Jia Zhangke's new film took more than two decades to complete, built partly from archive footage he has been shooting since the 1990s.

A woman waits. Her partner headed to the city, said he'd send for her once he was settled, and then kept not coming back. Zhao Tao — Jia's longtime collaborator — carries the film through that waiting, through a China that keeps changing shape around her. The footage shifts texture as the years accumulate on screen.

Jia Zhangke has spent his career capturing Chinese society through a particular working-class lens — Still Life (2006) and A Touch of Sin (2013) are landmarks in that project. Caught by the Tides goes further back than any of them. Not a film that rushes. Stream Caught by the Tides (2025) online on iFILM.

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