Hamburg Region + music + film

Cinema: Useless
  • A beautiful still from the 2007 film Useless by Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, described by film critic David Bordwell as "...a free fantasia on the theme of China as apparel-house to the world." Read the rest of the review here (you'll need to scroll down a fair bit). But I'm even keener to see the film Mid-Afternoon Barks by Zhang Yuedong, which sounds exactly like my fave type of film — surreal and comic at the same time (and is reviewed in the same post as Useless).