Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Mountains May Depart (2015) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Liang Jingdong, Dong Zijian, Sylvia Chang, Rong Zishan DIRECTOR: Jia Zhangke CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nelson Yu Lik-wai MUSIC: Yoshihiro Hanno PRODUCTION: Shanghai Film Group, Xstream Pictures, MK Productions, Beijing Runjin Investment, Office Kitano, Bandai Visual, Bitters End, ARTE France Cinéma

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Mountains May Depart (2015). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

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INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Music & Score

* "Go West" (1993) by the Pet Shop Boys * "Take care" (, 1990) by Sally Yeh ()

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Nominations: ○ IFFR audience award (45th International Film Festival Rotterdam)

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CRITICAL RECEPTION

Mountains May Depart holds a 79/100 average on review aggregation site Metacritic. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote, "Jia Zhang-ke’s Mountains May Depart is a mysterious and in its way staggeringly ambitious piece of work from a film-maker whose creativity is evolving before our eyes."

Scott Foundas of Variety states "Mountains May Depart is never less than a work of soaring ambition and deeply felt humanism, as Jia longs not so much to turn back the hands of time, but to ever so slightly slow them down."

Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave it a 5 out of 10, calling the film a "weakly written saga of friendship [that] goes way off the rails in the final part."