It may only be set a decade and a half ago, but the intense stylishness of Jia's images makes it glamorously remote, reinforcing the idea that our steps through the past can't be retraced.
Jia Zhangke film will focus on the "county" in this particular area, "county" in between rural and urban, living in one of the people is unique: both as a subject who has presented a "road" existence.