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Chinese Portrait
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Chinese Portrait

Oct 6, 2018
1h 19m
★ 6.9

Overview

Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, tourists laugh and scamper across a crowded beach, worshippers kneel to pray in a remote village. With a painterly eye for composition, Wang captures China as he sees it, calling to a temporary halt a land in a constant state of change.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

WXS Productions
Dongchun Films (Beijing) Co.
Chinese Shadows

Cast

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