'Til Madness Do Us Part
aka Feng ai
First screened in September 2013
Director: Wang Bing. Documentary record of life inside a mental hospital in the Yunnan Province of southern China.
Twitter Capsule:
Harrowing 4-hour stay in Chinese asylum; peeks outside harrow, too. Sensitive but too long. Context thin.
VOR:
④
One shouldn't extrapolate broadly from this document to larger truths about contemporary China, though surely some inhere. For many reasons, rare and valuable.
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| Photo © 2013 Moviola |
Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B