À la folie (2013) 瘋愛

★★★★

4h dans un hôpital psychiatrique.
Immersion au cœur de la folie des hommes dans la Chine contemporaine…

✍️ senscritique.com/film/a_la_foli…

#ÀlaFolie #WangBing #Chine 🇨🇳 #Yunnan #Documentaire #Hopital #Psychiatrie #Psychiatrique #Asile #Film #Cinema

Tie Xi Qu by #WangBing, #minute38 (x4). Cinema of immersion; #LavDiaz and WB's own The Ditch, though fiction, are for me primarily this, a narrative experienced rather than told. Herzog couldn't kill enough of himself (and Kinski) to move in that direction as far as he wanted.

À l'ouest des rails (2003) 铁西区

★★★★

Une immersion de 9h où l'on découvre la lente agonie d’une cité industrielle & d’un système devenu obsolète.

✍️ https://www.senscritique.com/film/a_l_ouest_des_rails/critique/281462077

#ÀlouestDesRails #WangBing #Chine 🇨🇳 #Shenyang #Mandchourie #TieXiQu #Usine #Ouvrier #Industrie #Documentaire #Film #Cinema

No wonder #WangBing is regarded as the best documentarian in the world and perhaps the most important Chinese director working today. #ThreeSisters hits all the right notes on what I love about observational #documentary and Wang's is as real & direct as it gets. It shows three sisters living in a remote highland in Yunan Province. They live like orphans. Their mother long gone. Father works in another city & seldom visits them. They mooch off of their aunt but also work, especially the oldest, Yin- tending various farm herds, vegetable gardens, building fire, cooking, dish washing & laundry. She also takes care of rambunctious younger siblings all by herself. Their abject poverty is not the main draw here. Rather, it's their innocence and resilience. So much beauty! There is beauty in the girl's faces, in hearth, in the mountains, in Yin's loneliness, in steam rising from the rice bowl, in tattered rain boots, in Yin's cursing, in every frame of Three Sisters. #chinesecinema

Madame Fang (2017) 方绣英

★★☆☆

Un documentaire minimaliste (à la limite du voyeurisme) où l’on regarde la mort en face.

✍️ https://www.senscritique.com/film/madame_fang/critique/282335407

#MadameFang #WangBing #FangXiuying #Chine #Documentaire #Mort #Alzheimer #Film #Cinema

Yes, it is over 9 hours long, but the collapse of the heavy industry in the Tiexi district of Shenyang, China, could not have been told in 90 minutes. With "West of the Tracks" (2002), Wang Bing allows us an in-depth look at the impact of industrial decay, especially on the workers and their families, who lose everything, even a future.

#film #cinema #cinemastodon #movies #SlowCinema #documentary #observation #China #industry #WangBing