“As emotionally effective as it is formally brilliant”
—Manohla Dargis, NY Times (Critic’s Pick)
“What Jia has captured here is the aging not of an individual but of a country… But CAUGHT BY THE TIDES cuts deeper still. Through the strange miracle of its existence, it shows us that the art of the motion picture is aging, too.”
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker
Director Jia Zhangke (ASH IS PUREST WHITE, MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART) delivers a masterful portrait of romantic destiny, over 20 years in the making. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES follows its perennial heroine, Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao), over decades as she traverses the profound social transformation and turbulent changes of contemporary China.