Ash Is Purest White 2018 123movies

Watch: 江湖儿女 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – Opening in 2001 in Datong an former coal mining town, Bin was a mob gangster of Jianghu when the leader was dethroned he takes it up. Qiao loves Bin very much and one day to save Bin from henchmen she uses his pistol and fire it fakely. she gets arrested and prisoned for 5 years and never been visited by Bin. When she is released she reaches Bin who has no interest for Qiao and is in love with other girl. 16 years later She gets a Call from Bin who is in need of a moral support.
Plot: Set in China’s underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 9,574
	99% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 238 Popularity: 14.027 | TMDB

Reviews:

An interesting main character
Qiao (Zhao Tao) lives in a mining town in the Chinese province of Shanxi. Her boyfriend Bin (Liao Fan) is a mob boss. As years go by, crime life brings consequences to their lives – individually and as a couple.

Though the film is long at two and a quarter hours, it is rarely dull. The two lead performers, especially Zhao, are engaging as are the occasional rural landscapes especially the ones captured by train travel.

The middle sequence is the most fascinating. When Qiao is on a mission in a strange place, she might act in terrible ways but it is still tempting to root for her; she’s not much different from the corruption that surrounds her.

Overall, “Ash Is Purest White” is a fascinating journey albeit a cynical one that begins in 2001 and finishes seventeen years later. Whether it’s taking place in a corrupt small town, a prison, or a chaotic travel experience, it is always intriguing in a mostly quiet way. – dbamateurcritic

Maybe I’m Not Smart Enough to Understand Chinese Movies
I’d like to think of myself as a fairly sophisticated movie goer. I studied film in school, I’ve seen a wide range of movies from all countries, genres, and time periods. I’m open, and even prefer, movies that are stylistically daring, experimental, and that try things that haven’t been done before. But I’ve now watched two Chinese movies that both came out in the past year, and I’m starting to think that I’m just not smart enough to understand Chinese movies.

I admittedly had never heard of the director of “Ash Is Purest White,” which in and of itself made me feel dumb, since he’s apparently considered to be one of the hottest international directors currently on the scene. And apparently “Ash Is Purest White” is very much integrated into the movies he’s made previously, none of which I’ve seen, so that didn’t help. The film is also very much about the cultural changes that have happened in China in recent years, which I also don’t know much about, so again, dumb ass. And this movie doesn’t explain any of those changes; it assumes you already know about them.

So I was able to watch “Ash Is Purest White” just for the plot and mood, and it’s not like I got nothing out of it, it’s just that I spent the whole movie feeling like much was going over my head because of how little homework I’d done beforehand. It’s not the movie’s fault, but it still impacted my enjoyment of it.

What it does have is a mesmerizing performance by Zhao Tao, who is married to the film’s director in real life (thank you Internet). She has been understandably lauded by pretty much every person who’s seen this movie, so I can do little but add my own praise.

This was on Barack Obama’s list of best movies of 2019, which also intrigued me. Though I will say that it was already on my watch list before Obama released his, so there, Barack Obama (and can you please come back and be our president again?)

Grade: B

Other Information:

Original Language zh
Runtime 2 hr 16 min (136 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
Director Zhangke Jia
Writer Zhangke Jia
Actors Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu
Country China, France, Japan
Awards 27 wins & 56 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1 (opening scenes), 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT, Arriflex 435, Leitz SUMMILUX-C lenses, Red Epic Dragon
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm, ARRIRAW, HDCAM, Redcode RAW (6K), Video
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (2.8K) (source format) (some scenes), DV (source format) (some scenes), Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), HDCAM (source format) (some scenes), HDV (source format) (some scenes), Redcode RAW (6K) (source format) (2017/2018 part), Super 35 (source format) (second part)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema