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The Shadowless Tower
Directed by
Zhang Lu
NR
2023
2h 24m
Drama
6.6
88%
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Gu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by his new friend, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.
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Cast of The Shadowless Tower
Xin Baiqing
Gu Wentong
Huang Yao
Ouyang Wenhui
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Gu Yunlai
Li Qinqin
Gu Wenhui
Nan Ji
Nan Ji
Wang Hongwei
Li Jun
Wang Yiwen
Xiao Xiao (young)
Wanting Liu
Xiaoqing
Zhang Xianmin
Zhang Xinming
Zhang Lu
Director / Writer
Jin Peng
Producer
The Shadowless Tower Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
There's a rich quietude at work in "The Shadowless Tower," which makes one realize how that virtue varies from filmmaker to filmmaker.
NPR
Justin Chang
Most of us realize, sooner or later, that we're more like our parents or other family members than we care to admit. But the movie articulates that truth with a gentleness that can take your breath away...
Spectrum Culture
Charles Lyons-Burt
Character motivations and plot threads are left semi-unresolved and nebulously defined, but enough crystallizes that the film amounts to a moving story of a man slowly reengaging.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
This movie opens itself to you with its feeling for people, its grace notes and a few bravura moments that close the distance between characters beautifully.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
Moving somewhere between Edward Yang and Hong Sang-soo, "The Shadowless Tower" is an intensely art-house movie, both beautiful and meaningful, but also addressed solely to fans of the particular cinema.
In Review Online
Michael Sicinski
But like the best "novelistic" films... The Shadowless Tower communicates complex states of being through framing, camera movement, and the accretion of detail over time.
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
The characters' generational angst humanizes the film's view of a nation at a crossroads.
Critic's Notebook
Sarah Manvel
It's quite a way to externalize how a single mistake can shape multiple lives, but the pacing drags and the subplots pull focus from the main issue.
Awards Daily
Zhuo-Ning Su
An unassuming, lyrically dispassioned endeavor, but one I suspect will grow on me for a long while.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Lightly humorous and not without some strident sentimentalism when it comes to the characterization of children, Lu's latest is often enchanting and moreover meaningful in its lessons on settling with the past.
The Film Stage
Leonardo Goi
This is, at its core, a tale of people struggling to latch onto something (or someone), to plant their roots, to find meaning and purpose in the invisible lattice that keeps us bound to those we love and the places we share with them.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
A contemplative film of quiet rewards.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
The warmth of Piao Songri's photography is a constant, as is his facility for the offbeat framing of even the most everyday encounter, using doorways or reflections or a quickly shifting focus.
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