Mountains May Depart

It’s 1999 in a Chinese mountain town, and a young woman (Zhao Tao) finds her affections being competed for by a flamboyant stock speculator (Zhang Yi) and a poor but proud miner (Liang Jing-Dong). The sobering life consequences of her choice for them all are visited 15 years later--and another decade after that--in director Jia Zhang Ke’s cutting rumination on his country’s modern cultural arc. Dong Zijian, Sylvia Chang also star. 126 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English; documentary; theatrical trailer. In Mandarin with English subtitles.