Wang Bing's film Fengming, chronique d'une femme chinoise will be presented as part of the Claude Lanzmann, le lieu et la parole retrospective at the Centre Pompidou.
Wang Bing follows an elderly woman on her way home. Seated in her armchair, He Fengming begins her story, which starts with the enthusiasm of the advent of communism. It soon forks into political violence and repression: imprisonment, hunger, cold, humiliation of body and spirit. And the strength of feeling.
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