BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Barrie Film Festival - ECPv5.16.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Barrie Film Festival
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://barriefilmfestival.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Barrie Film Festival
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Toronto
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20180311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20181104T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181013T182100
DTSTAMP:20260403T145748
CREATED:20181008T163540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T163540Z
UID:4926-1539446400-1539454860@barriefilmfestival.ca
SUMMARY:Ash is Purest White
DESCRIPTION:Ash is Purest White (Jiang Hu Er Nü)\nWritten and Directed by: Zhangke Jia\nCast: Tao Zhao\, Fan Liao\, Yi’nan Diao and Zheng Xu\nDrama/Romance | NOT RATED | 141 min. | Chinese/Mandarin with English subtitles | China/France/Japan \n  \nSCREENING:\nSaturday\, October 13 – 4:00 pm\, Uptown Theatre \nClick here to buy tickets! \n  \n“Occasionally dream-like and frequently transcendent\, the film brilliantly portrays an ever-evolving Chinese landscape struggling with the many changes of the 21st century.” – Tom Augustine\, NEW ZEALAND HERALD \n“The best performance seen in eight days at Cannes was by Zhao Tao in Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White\, a too-rare subgenre of the crime drama: the life of a gangster moll.”– Kent Turner\, FILM-FORWARD.COM \n“There’s a timeless quality to Qiao and Bin’s relationship\, to its elemental cycles of loyalty\, power\, and humiliation.” – Bilge Ebiri\, VILLAGE VOICE \n  \nQiao is in love with Bin\, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs\, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release\, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off. Ash is Purest White is the most recent contribution to director Zhangke’s body of work as a record of 21st century China and its warp-speed transformations. \n  \n2 WINS\, 5 NOMINATIONS: \nWON – Prix du Jury-ICS Cannes Award\, Best Actress (Tao Zhao)\, International Cinephile Society Awards\, 2018\nNOMINATED – Palme d’Or\, Cannes Film Festival\, 2018\nNOMINATED – Best International Film\, Jerusalem Film Festival\, 2018
URL:https://barriefilmfestival.ca/now-playing/ash-is-purest-white/
LOCATION:Uptown Theatre\, 55 Dunlop St. W.\, Barrie\, Ontario\, L4N 1A3\, Canada
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR