Best of 2019 : Ash is Purest White
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour, VancouverArguably the greatest working filmmaker, Jia Zhangke's latest feels like a culmination, spanning the years 2001-2017 and drawing as it does on characters, plot elements, motifs and themes from almost of his previous features. The magnificent Zhao Tao plays Qiao, the girlfriend of gangster Bin. She saves his life but winds up in prison.