Pickpocket
Jia Zhang-ke / CN, HK, 1998 / 108 min.
Jia Zhang-Ke rocketed to international fame with his feature film debut Pickpocket. This film about the life of a young petty thief in 1990s China is still regarded as a brilliant commentary on a fast modernising China.
Xiao Wu spends his time in Fenyang, a provincial town of some 300,000 residents. Wu is the Chinese counterpart of the western slacker; he refuses to take any responsibilities and saunters through life without much effort. He has no ambitions in life and gets by as a small-time criminal, his specialty being pickpocketing.
Restored by the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with MK2 and in collaboration with Jia Zhangke. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
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Director
Jia Zhang-ke
Production year
1998
Country
CN, HK
Original title
Xiao Wu
Length
108 min.
Language
Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
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