Film
Chinese Portrait
2018 · 1h 19m · Documentary
- IMDb
- 6.6
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 90%
- Metacritic
- 81
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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.
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Crew
- Wang XiaoshuaiDirector
- Liu XuanProducer
- Isabelle GlachantProducer
- Qian YiniExecutive Producer
- Wu DiDirector of Photography
- Piao XinghaiDirector of Photography
- Zeng JianDirector of Photography
- Zeng HuiDirector of Photography
- Valérie LoiseleuxEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- October 6, 2018
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Documentary
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