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I Wish I Knew
2010 2h 5m Jia Zhangke

I Wish I Knew

★ 6.9 IMDb
Documentary History
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
Writer Jia Zhangke
Cast Zhao Tao, Chen Danqing, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wang Tung
DP Yu Lik-wai
Music Lim Giong
Essays and Criticism
On this film
Currency by Tony Rayns, Cinema Scope
On Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke by Tony Rayns, Cinema Scope Jia Zhangke and the Chinese Century by Mark Asch, MUBI Notebook Zhangke Going Home: Retrospection in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke by Bart Versteirt, photogénie
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