Glued to their sewing machine, they listen to music, bicker like puppies, flirt and insult each other like childish teenagers. CDF 2023
CRITICAL – The harsh chronicle of a hard-working generation sacrificed in the garment workshops, Youth (Spring)his documentary, is excessively long.
Between Johnny Depp And Harrison Ford, Wang Bing. Under this onomatopoeic name hides a Chinese documentary filmmaker with a worldwide and austere reputation. The documentary rarely has its place in competition at Cannes. It is treated better at other major international festivals. By winning respectively the golden lion in Venice and the golden bear in Berlin, All the beauty and the bloodshed by Laura Poitras and On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert recalled that the genre could compete with fiction. By selecting Youth (Spring), Thierry Frémaux imitates his Italian and German counterparts. He does not take incredible risks either, as Wang Bing has been counting thurifers since 2004 and West of the tracksa nine-hour documentary devoted to the end of a huge Chinese industrial complex.
Born in 1967 in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province in central China, Wang Bing has since filmed his country, “anti-rightist” repression under Mao (Fengming…
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