6.9 / 10
(7 votes)
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.
China,
France,
Hong Kong
Documentary
79 minutes
2018
Wang Xiaoshuai
WXS Productions,
Dongchun Films (Beijing) Co.,
Chinese Shadows
2017
7.0
2007
0.0
2010
0.0
10.0
2020
7.0
2008
7.9
1994
0.0
2003
8.3
2013
0.0
2020
8.0
2017
0.0
1974
0.0
2015
8.5
2007
7.3
2016
4.2
1997
0.0
2018
7.8
0.0
2006
7.3
2021
0.0