Overall, Mountains May Depart is a melancholy reflection on lost dreams, the paths not taken, the clash of reality and what might have been.
Jia isn’t above using soap opera like plot conventions but even at its most manipulative and emotional, the film never loses its focus on the bigger picture. This is a film not just about upheavals in Tao’s life but about convulsive changes in the society around her too.
Zhao Tao proves that she’s one of the greatest living screen actors.
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