Chinese Portrait (2018)

Name: Chinese Portrait
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-01-05T20:21:25+01:00
Rating: 3.38

Documentary | 79 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 79 minuten

Country: Hong-Kong

Directed by: Xiaoshuai Wang

IMDb score: 6,6 (154)

Releasedate: 6 October 2018

Chinese Portrait plot

Passengers on a train, tourists on the beach, factory workers, farmers, construction workers, students. In a series of portraits, the Chinese feature film director Wang Xiaoshuai captures the state of his country. Each portrait consists of a longshot, captured with an immovable camera, in which one or more people pose motionless. The modern China that the director shows is a colorful collection of new buildings, old courtyards, dilapidated industrial estates, countryside and large cities. The endless amount of construction projects is particularly striking. The film is a motionless, non-narrative snapshot, as if all unstoppable change has been halted for a moment.