The three-and-a-half-hour Cannes competition entry from the renowned documaker embeds with garment workers essentially living in factories.
The first thing anyone ever says about the work of venerated documentary filmmaker Wang Bing is that he makes fascinating but long films. Like, really, really long. His debut, about a crumbling industrial district, screened in two different versions, one five and the other nine hours, give or take.Two of his films are screening at Cannes this year — main competition entrant— so at three and half hours and 60 minutes, respectively, in Wang terms they’re practically shorts.
Youth is consistently engaging, even if it’s not always easy to see what the whole package is trying to say that couldn’t be said with more brevity. Like , Wang is a lofty filmmaking doc deity who moves in mysterious, glacial ways, but one who sometimes performs miracles.
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