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From one week to another, from one China to another. On Wednesday, April 2, Wang Bing, director of the 2002 masterpiece West of the tracks (An elegy to Chinese deindustrialization) presented the second installment of Young people (difficult times). This documentary trilogy is dedicated to the contemporary servitude of young textile workers in the Shanghai region. Wang Bing, 57, without a doubt, one of the best living documentaries, can no longer reside in his country, where his work, which portrays a private Chinese reality, has never been welcome. A thousand miles away, but very close, in the heart of Shanghai, the 34 -year -old director Yihui Shao paints a different world with different customs in his flood Its history. A romantic comedy and a feminist box office success was launched on November 22, 2024 in China, and since then from the box office with 17 million tickets sold.
Born in the Shanxi region and trained at the Beijing Film Academy before recently settled in Shanghai, Shao is not a rookie. In 2021, it had a significant impact on the national box office with B for busy (Not distributed in France), who presented a lovely master of divorced painting who romantically moves between three women. For Its historyShao skilled retained the dominant characteristics that contributed to the success of his previous film, including dialogue, which is almost everything in the Shanghainese dialect. The filming was carried out in the old French colonial neighborhood, highlighting the cosmopolitan and modern nature of the city that has always culturally and politically distinguished from Beijing’s austerity. This is not a new phenomenon, as already demonstrated by the opposite Hapai and Jingpai Movements in literature.
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