Fathers and Sons
di Richard Brody The New Yorker
To make his first feature film, “Taking Father Home” (Typecast), the young Chinese director Ying Liang worked with a borrowed video camera and a volunteer cast and crew; shooting without permits, he completed the film for several thousand dollars. He also eluded censorship to tell a story that, though intimate in scope, depicts his rage at the official order on a grand scale. The seventeen-year-old Xu Yun, a slight, quiet, and naïve Sichuan farm boy whose village is about to be razed to make way for an industrial zone, travels to the nearby city of Zigong in search of his father, who has been away from home for six years and is rumored to be a successful businessman. [...]
di Richard Brody, articolo completo (2679 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 9 agosto 2010
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