Chinese Portrait

• Movies
• 2018-10-06
• ZH
• Released
• 1h 19m
• CN
• Documentary

• 6.9
• 7

Production

WXS Productions, Dongchun Films (Beijing) Co., Chinese Shadows

Storyline

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.