24 City
2008 · Movie · Not Rated · 108 min · ★ 7.0 · 82% critics
As an old state-run factory in Chengdu is demolished to make way for a luxury housing complex, people connected to it reflect on work, memory, and change. Blending interviews with staged testimony, the film looks at how urban transformation reshapes ordinary lives and communities.
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Details
- Original title
- 二十四城记
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-09-27
- Language
- Chinese
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (63 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy reflective, human-centered documentaries about social change, especially if Last Train Home or Tsukiji Wonderland worked for you; Not for you if you want a fast pace or clear-cut storytelling.
Pros: moving personal stories; thoughtful look at change; intimate, reflective mood | Cons: very slow pacing; mixed fiction-documentary approach; limited broader context
Themes
- factory
- china
- flat
- beautiful woman
Cast & crew
Joan Chen
as Xiao Hua
Lü Liping
as Hao Dali
Zhao Tao
as Su Na
Chen Jianbin
as Song Wei-Dong
Directed by Jia Zhangke