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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2024

There’s a rich quietude at work in “The Shadowless Tower,” which makes one realize how that virtue varies from filmmaker to filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2024

Time can have a curious ebb and flow in “The Shadowless Tower,” a ruminative Chinese drama in which the past intrudes on — and at times overwhelms — the present.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024

The competition also featured three pleasantly eccentric Asian titles: Zhang Lu’s “The Shadowless Tower,” a personal favorite; Makoto Shinkai’s wild-ride anime “Suzume”; and Liu Jian’s animated slacker memoir “Art College 1994.”

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023

What Eden but noon-light stares it tame, Shadowless, brazen, forsaken of shame?

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney