Chinese director Zhang Lu’s contemporary drama “The Shadowless Tower” is a gently enigmatic character piece that resists telling you too much about its characters. Zhang’s preference is to present ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central characters in The Shadowless Tower are orphaned, disconnected, separated from the roots that give them an emotional ...
Zhang Lu’s quiet film follows a man touched by nostalgia and loss, lending a melancholic air to this modern city of steel and glass. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...
A middle-aged divorced dad has an almost-romance with a free-sprited young woman in Zhang Lu's lovely dramedy. Courtesy of Lu Films, Emei Film Investment, Great Luck Films, La Fonte, KO Media and ...
The title of The Shadowless Tower refers to an enormous 13th-century Buddhist temple that looms over the Xicheng district of Beijing. It's called the White Pagoda, and it was designed in such a way ...
Writer-director Zhang Lu uses a 13th century Tibetan Buddhist temple in Beijing to reflect on the value of constancy in drifting lives shaped by change. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic The central ...