Excel releases ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Platform’ on DVD

MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos has partnered with NDTV Lumiere to release Chinese film-maker Jia Zhang Ke‘s Unknown Pleasure and Platform on DVD.

Priced at Rs 499, the DVDs also includes additional features such as ‘about the director/ movie‘, ‘filmography‘ and ‘awards‘.

Platform, a 2000 release,examines the transition of China from Mao-inspired collectivism to commercialism,westernisation, and popular culture. The film follows a group of performing artists in the state-run Fenyang Peasant Culture Group who change with the cultural, economic and political changes in China.

Unknown Pleasure, nominated for the Palme d‘Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, gives an account of disillusioned youth living in China. The story ruminates on the boredom, longing and helplessness of two teenage Chinese boys stuck in the province with nothing to do but dream of a better future that evades them.