the 21st century. The film has a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews, with an average score of 6.72 out of 10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 76 based on 7 critic reviews. Awards Venice Film Festival, 2000 Netpac Award Three Continents Festival, 2000 Golden Montgolfiere Singapore International Film Festival, 2000 SFC Young Cinema Award Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2001 Best Film Fribourg International Film Festival, 2001 Don Quixote Award FIPRESCI Prize References External links Postsocialist Grit An essay on ideology and aesthetics in Platform and Unknown Pleasures at Offscreen Journal 2000 films 2000s coming-of-age drama films Chinese coming-of-age drama films Films directed by Jia Zhangke Films set in Shanxi 2000 drama films 2000s Chinese films