Ash Is Purest White's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
"The performances of the two leads are riveting".
The Guardian
"What does the ending of Ash Is Purest White mean ? and what does its middle or beginning mean? I?m not sure. It feels like a gripping parable for the vanity of human wishes, and another impassioned portrait of national malaise".
Variety
"The work has its intellectually ponderous moments but is ultimately saved by Jia?s muse and wife, Zhao Tao, who surpasses herself in a role of mesmerizing complexity".
Cinemanía
It reflects the transition Jia's cinema has experienced through the years (...). And, despite it, it's different: funnier, stranger, more worrisome and, maybe, more transcendent.
Indiewire
"It?s a movie that often feels like a mega-mix of Jia?s greatest hits, but one that rehashes them with precious little of the ineffable grace that make each of them so valuable on their own".
El País
Jia Zhang-Ke has been telling that his country is in trouble over a decade (...) Sometimes he has written this disturbing landscape generating some interest. But it's very poor in the very long and monotonous 'Ash Is Purest White'.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote