Zhan Tai

Jia Zhangke

IndieLisboa 2005 •

China, Fiction, 2000, 155′

Winter. 1979. The political and social changes that swept China during the 80’s are reflected in the musical group of Minliang, his girlfriend and their friends. The influences of the West (pop music, longer hair for men, television) and the adoption of more modern conventions (birth-control, co-habitation, abandonment of arranged mariages) begin to slowly manifest themselves in the group’s small provincial town of Feyang. With the mid-80’s shift in government policy, the future of the goup is as uncertain as the relationships among its members.