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Fengming

A Chinese Memoir

4.7
(11)
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Rating
NRT
Duration
3h 4m
Year
2007
Language
Mandarin
Publisher
Grasshopper Film

About

Often cited as one of the great documentary achievements, Wang Bing's dazzling tour-de-force - a gripping monologue recounting five decades in the life of a once-ardent socialist in the new China - is a testament to the power of oral history and the strength of one extraordinary woman. Never before available.

Related Subjects

  • Documentary
  • Biography

Extended Details

  • Closed CaptionsNo

    Reviews

    "Gripping. A sweeping saga. Fengming stands alongside first-person precedents like Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason and Errol Morris's The Fog of War in its ability to wrest powerful effects from the deceptively simple setup of a lone raconteur."
    Art Forum
    "A heartbreaking, scathing documentary... The film has a moral authority similar to that of Shoah, to which it ingeniously alludes."
    The New Yorker
    "In his masterful, West of the Tracks, Wang Bing used a rural freight railway as a conduit into China's uneasy transition from a planned to a market economy. In this equally remarkable follow-up, he finds in a single room, and in He Fengming's harrowed eyes, another uncanny metaphor for individual lives undone by the dreams of nations."
    Village Voice

    Artists

    Wang BingDirector
    Yang WangWriter
    Fengming HeActor