"Youth: torments": tour de force - L'Incorrect

With this new opus of his Youth series dedicated to young employees of Chinese textile workshops, Wang Bing proves that a film documentary can be above all a history of formalism. By presenting in turn the different protagonists of these tiny, unsanitary and windowless workshops, the filmmaker always uses the same scale of plan and stands at a distance from his characters. These living paintings that perfectly render the claustration and which, …