
Opening in 2001 in Datong an former coal mining town, Bin was a mob gangster of Jianghu when the leader was dethroned he takes it up. Qiao loves Bin very much and one day to save Bin from henchmen she uses his pistol and fire it fakely. she gets arrested and prisoned for 5 years and never been visited by Bin. When she is released she reaches Bin who has no interest for Qiao and is in love with other girl.... (Full plot summary below)
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Opening in 2001 in Datong an former coal mining town, Bin was a mob gangster of Jianghu when the leader was dethroned he takes it up. Qiao loves Bin very much and one day to save Bin from henchmen she uses his pistol and fire it fakely. she gets arrested and prisoned for 5 years and never been visited by Bin. When she is released she reaches Bin who has no interest for Qiao and is in love with other girl.
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| Film Comment MagazineJonathan RomneyThe film's emotional center is... a moment of such intense, painful calm and seriousness that it seems like an age since the film was entertaining us with pistol play. |
| AwardsCircuit.comClayton DavisZhao's performance echoes every last ounce of her abilities as an actress. We have a better world because of it. |
| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerThe best performance seen in eight days at Cannes was by Zhao Tao in Jia Zhang-ke's Ash Is Purest White, a too-rare subgenre of the crime drama: the life of a gangster moll. |
| Cinema ScopeJames LattimerYet for all the different moods and registers that feed into the film, Jia's skill at modulating tone is such that all this heterogeneity still produces one single flow. |
| Sight and SoundGiovanni Marchini CamiaJia has dedicated his career to scrutinising the complexities of the culture to which he and his films belong and it seems likely that in revisiting chapters from his filmography, he wished to address the masculine facets of his own work. |
| MUBIDaniel KasmanRevealing an ambitious, sprawling tale with sidelong storytelling that focuses on grace notes of a much bigger picture. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriThere's a timeless quality to Qiao and Bin's relationship, to its elemental cycles of loyalty, power, and humiliation. |
| Reverse ShotAdam NaymanThe two-way relationship between Jia and Zhao is the main attraction... Ash Is Purest White is about what it takes to keep love from burning out but its excellence, as well as its existence, is evidence of a genuinely incandescent artistic partnership. |
| Film Companion ReviewsBaradwaj RanganAsh has at least five endings, but its ups and downs are as riveting as they are exhausting. |
| Financial TimesRaphael AbrahamZhao is magnificent throughout. With her smile she can project warmth or daggers, and she seems able to grow younger or older at will. |