Youth (Spring)—the first installment of Wang Bing’s larger project Spring—is a laborious film, in terms not only of its mammoth runtime of 212 minutes, but also ...

It is somehow emblematic of modern China — at least of its seamier side, as frequently explored in director Wang Bing’s unsparing documentaries — that the street on which his long, oppressive new film ...

Icarus Films has taken North American rights to Youth (Spring), the newest feature from Venice prizer winner Wang Bing, which earlier this year became one of the first documentaries admitted to Cannes ...

The three-and-a-half-hour Cannes competition entry from the renowned documaker embeds with garment workers essentially living in factories. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Like Wang’s ...

Check the label on that garment hanging in your closet. If it reads “Made in China,” there’s a chance it was stitched together by one of the characters in Wang Bing’s documentary Youth (Spring), or ...

Wang Bing’s immersive, 3.5-hour opus heralds a welcome return of the documentary genre to the Cannes Palme d’Or race. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Cannes Film ...

The repetitive, monotonous rhythm of life for the young seasonal employees of China's clothing-manufacturing workshops is this expansive documentary's poignancy, but also its problem. Courtesy of ...