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Quitting
Directed by
Zhang Yang
2002
1h 54m
R
Drama
,
Biography
,
Music
7.1
77%
85%
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An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.
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Cast of Quitting
Jia Hongsheng
Hong-shen
Jia Fengsen
Hong-shen's Father
Tong Wang
Hong-shen's Sister
Zhu Hongmao
Quitting Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Patrick Z. McGavin
Daring and beautifully made.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A brave experiment.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
It helps that the central performers are experienced actors, and that they know their roles so well.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Less than fresh.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
If Mr. Zhang's subject matter is, to some degree at least, quintessentially American, his approach to storytelling might be called Iranian.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
If you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle, Quitting hits home with disorienting force.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A probing and universal contemporary drama.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Jia's performance is so unsparing and intense -- and the film so compassionate and chaste in its approach to a life lost and recovered -- that Quitting ultimately satisfies.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Zhang ... has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
The asylum material is gripping, as are the scenes of Jia with his family.
Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
Formally ambitious and emotionally engaging.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
If Quitting isn't worthy of affection exactly, it's worthy of respect, as director Zhang Yang plays with the structural elements of the story as well as notions of fiction and fact.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
It further declares its director, Zhang Yang of Shower, as a boldly experimental, contemporary stylist with a bright future.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy, the film becomes predictably conventional.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Straightforward yet opaque and uncompromising piece of work.
Film Threat
Tim Merrill
Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
... mesmerizing, an eye-opening tour of modern Beijing culture in a journey of rebellion, retreat into oblivion and return.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Duane Dudek
Presents a side of contemporary Chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists, and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation.
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