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YOUTH (SPRING)

青春

Director: 

Wang Bing

Documentary

2023

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France, Luxembourg, Netherlands

Minutes: 

215

Chinese w/ English subtitles

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YOUTH (SPRING)

Zhili, 150 km from Shanghai. In this city dedicated to textile manufacturing, young workers come from all the rural regions crossed by the Yangtze River. They are in their early twenties, share dormitories and snack in the corridors. They work tirelessly to be able one day to raise a child, buy a house or set up their own workshop. Between them, friendships and love affairs are made and unmade according to the seasons, bankruptcies and family pressures.


  • Cannes Film Festival 2023

  • New York Film Festival 2023

“Wang’s film feels less like an exposé than an eye-opener; a portrait of a reality that feels almost otherworldly in its distance and difference. Youth (Spring) is a rare window into a world of life and work that might be specific but has clear echoes in scenarios the world over.”
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TimeOut

“[Wang Bing's] scale and purpose are always impressive.”
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Ion Cinema

“Youth (Spring) is possibly the most significant document of Chinese garment workers ever created.”
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Paste Magazine

"Consistently engaging. Like Frederick Wiseman, Wang is a lofty filmmaking doc deity who moves in mysterious, glacial ways, but one who sometimes performs miracles."
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Hollywood Reporter

“[An] immersive, 3.5-hour opus. As a standalone feature, the dense and repetitive slice-of-life offers notes on a theme, lamenting stifled promise while considering the ways such youthful vigor can withstand, overcome or wholly be crushed by the grinding gears of capitalism with Chinese characteristics.”
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