Chinese Portrait (2018)

• Documentary

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.

Rating

6.9 / 10 (7 votes)

Release date

October 6, 2018

Runtime

1h 19m

Language

Chinese

Director

Wang Xiaoshuai

Status

Released