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Art College 1994
Directed by
Liu Jian
2025
1h 58m
Animation
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6.4
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Set in China in the 1990s, takes a look at youth featuring a group of art students.
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Cast of Art College 1994
Dong Zijian
Zhang Xiaojun
Zhou Dongyu
Hao Lili
Changchu Xu
cast
Jiang Yilei
cast
Huang Bo
cast
Dong Chengpeng
cast
Bu Guanjin
cast
Bi Gan
cast
Huang Lu
cast
Lei Peng
cast
Kevin Tsai
cast
Wang Hongwei
cast
White-K
cast
Lei Xu
cast
Zhang Zixian
cast
Jia Zhangke
cast
Zheng Dasheng
cast
Liu Jian
Director / Writer
Shan Lin
Writer
Shen Lihui
Producer
Gao Shiming
Producer
Cheng Yang
Producer
Art College 1994 Ratings & Reviews
Geek Vibes Nation
Cody Allen
Art College 1994 paints a detailed picture of young adults exploring their freedom and focusing on their own experiences.
The Chinese Cinema
Sean Gilman
If Art College 1994 proves anything, it's that mid-90s students were slackers the world over. Or at least the ones worth hanging out with were.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
Liu is an intelligent and thoughtful artist, and, as the portrait of a group of artists as young people, his film is charming and amiable, occasionally moving and unsettling. The central problem ... lies in its essential intellectual amorphousness.
The Take-Up
Andrew Wyatt
Writer-director's Liu Jian's animated slice-of-student-life charmer absolutely nails the vibe of being a twenty-something wannabe artist with a head full of dreams and an empty bank account.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
All their concerns are familiar and irresolvable, especially for college students. Still, on balance, hanging out for two hours with these familiar young adults is a pleasant experience.
Film Inquiry
Soham Gadre
Art College 1994 resists nostalgia by making clear that college is a time of aching intellectual embarrassment.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
"Art College 1994" is unassumingly sweet because it's about young people and their eternal quest for freedom and self-expression, mostly inside their own navels.
The Weekend Warrior (Substack)
Edward Douglas
Another example of how [the animation] medium can be used to tell a (presumably) personal story, not unlike Linklater's animated films.
In Review Online
Travis DeShong
Art College 1994 doesn't seem very interested in making any sort of defining point at all, but in rather encapsulating a specific milieu with a spellbinding attention to detail.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Occasionally cerebral and lyrical, but often meandering, dry, overlong and lethargic with underwritten, forgettable characters and not enough onscreen to captivate the audience.
Slant Magazine
Ryan Coleman
The precise contrast of stasis and flux, of the sublime and the quotidian, of simple personal dreams swallowed up by massive national ambitions, characterizes Liu Jian's latest.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
Like its characters, "Art College 1994" gives the impression of having just too much time on its hands.
The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
Endearing, if you can take the dorm-room philosophizing.
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