The World (Blu-Ray and DVD)

 ( Video Product ) 

• The World (Blu-Ray and DVD) available on November 01 2023 from TheHut for 16.59
  
• The World Masters (Dual Format Edition) (Blu-ray) available on April 17 2015 from Base for 7.89
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700626 ξ1 registered November 01 2023
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700626 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
  
• Product category is Blu-ray Video

• Model EKA70062
  

The fourth feature by internationally acclaimed auteur Jia Zhangke was also his breakout success an epic with a canvas as vast and intimate as its title suggests: a state-of-the-modern-world address and a look at the insular world of a troupe of Chinese stage-performers dreaming of freedom… Zhao Tao Jia’s muse is one of these troupers. For Tao and the larger ensemble of pageant performers at Beijing’s real-life World Park (a sprawling hyper-pastiche of global landmarks — “famous sites from five continents”) love is respite from work work is respite from love and the line that extends from the past to the future loses all definition beyond the present. A testament to the wisdom of this young filmmaker who arrived in the late 1990s with Xiao Wu and in 2000 Platform (regarded by many to be the greatest film of the 2000s) Shijie / The World provides an image of globalisation as a paradox: at once a phenomenon rooted in social control and a network that allows connection across individual people and populations. Special Dual Format Edition: 1080p Blu-Ray transfer English subtitles Tony Rayns on The World: New and exclusive video introduction to the film Made in China: A 65 minute documentary on the making of The World The World according to Jia Zhangke: A 24 minute interview 40 page booklet

^ The World (Blu-Ray and DVD), Masters of Cinema. TheHut. EAN 5060000700626 (revised Nov 2023)
^ The World [Masters of Cinema] (Dual Format Edition) (Blu-ray) Base. EAN 5060000700626 (revised Apr 2015)