Retrospective

Mrs Fang

Wang Bing
Human Rights & Society 2017 86 min China, France, Germany
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Synopsis

An unforgettable encounter.

Fang Xiuying, 68, has been a widow for several years and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. After being hospitalised, she was sent home to die, surrounded by her family. But death comes a long way.

Cast/Avec

  • Fang Xiuying

Cinematographer

  • Wenhai Huang
  • Wang Bing
  • Peifeng Li

Sound

  • Antoine Fournier

Production

  • Album Productions
  • Hui Mao

Screenings

Thursday 28 March 2024 18:30
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : Chinese, English
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Wang Bing

Wang Bing
Wang Bing

Born in Xi’an in 1967, Wang Bing studied photography at the Shenyang Fine Arts School and then joined the Film Academy. In the 1990s, he earned his living as a cameraman and assistant. In 2002, he directed West of the tracks, a nine-hour documentary on the demise of a huge industrial zone in China. After that, he continued to tackle subjects that were difficult to say the least: “anti-Rightist” repression, extreme poverty, life in a psychiatric hospital… In 2017, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for Mrs. Fang. In 2021, the Cinémathèque française will devote a retrospective to his work. In 2023, the Cannes Film Festival presents two new films by the director in official selection: Spring in competition, and Man in Black in special screening.

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Filmography

  • Man in Black 2023
  • Jeunesse (Le printemps) 2023
  • Beauty Lives in Freedom 2018
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