Chinese Portrait

(2018)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Runtime: 79 мин

Country: China, France

Director: 王小帅

Plot

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.