screening of new Chinese film A TOUCH OF SIN by The South Bay Film Society

Tickets on sale at http://www.southbayfilmsociety.com/event/a-touch-of-sin/

Winner of best

screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2013.

A TOUCH OF SIN draws upon four shocking violent events that actually happened in China
in recent years and that are well-known to people throughout China.  Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke  “one of the best and most important directors in the world”
(Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this is a poetic and grand-scale modern

film-noir drawing inspiration from Chinese martial arts.


“This blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China is at once monumental and human scale.    The story of lives rocked by
violence, it has the urgency of a screaming headline but one inscribed with
visual lyricism, emotional weight and a belief in individual rights. ” –
Manohla Dargis, New York Times

“Epic and intimate, A TOUCH OF SIN finally feels as big and complex, as
contradictory and sad as, well, China.” – James Adams, Globe and Mail

“A corrosive depiction of the New China, an everything-for-sale society still
figuring out how to cope with the dehumanizing effects of unbridled
capitalism.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Language: Mandarin Chinese (English subtitles)