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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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