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‘Youth: Homecoming’ Review: Director Wang Bing Shines A Light On Workers Whose Lives Nobody Would Want — Venice Film Festival
Read Deadline's review of Wang Bing's Venice Film Festival competition title 'Youth: Homecoming.'
Fiercely independent Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing spent five years filming young workers in Zhili, an industrial region near Shanghai where around 18,000 garment workshops churn out cheap clothes for the domestic market. Watching these young folk tramp between sweatshops looking for work, scoffing pot noodles standing up in fly-blown kitchens because there is no room to sit or pushing unidentifiable bits of garments through sewing machines at what seems to be a superhuman pace, you just want to get out of there. Wang also spends a long spell in a workshop where there is no supervisor and the young people laugh, flirt and boast of how many hundred bits of whatsit they have managed to complete that day with what seems to be genuine pride.
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