Do not mistake this for Men in Black on family movie night.
Geregisseerd door Wang Bing
黑衣人
Een realistische, sombere documentaire.
Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this film some of the horrifying events that still live on in his memory as testimony to an era that saw the dehumanization of the entire Chinese nation.
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"As an author, I can't give people false hope! Paint a glorious future? I don't see one. Sell people a fairy tale? Never!"An incredible documentary that shows the inner mind of an artist in all of its power and beauty. Having the symphonies playing over Wang Xilin's testimonies about the terror he and his nation have gone through was so powerful. Hearing how he describes and explains something like how torture has given him a certain idea for a certain symphony, while hearing the music and understanding exactly what he talks about, is intensely powerful. Wang Bing's direction gives the story and the music such immeasurable artistic merit that even being filmed in one location with a single person in front of the camera and nothing else, it shows you the wounds of a nation and of an individual and tells a story of resistance through art in all its vividness. Truly a masterful piece of art."A deathly silence. Then the madman's dreary song. How would that sound? A madman has no songs. His mind is gone. He cries and bleeds in silence."
De documentaire volgt de 86-jarige klassieke componist Wang Xilin terwijl hij een leeg theater, zijn muziek en zijn getekende lichaam gebruikt om de zware vervolging tijdens de Culturele Revolutie in China te herbeleven.
Man in Black werd in 2023 geregisseerd door de gerenommeerde Chinese documentairerisseur Wang Bing.
De film ging in première op het Filmfestival van Cannes in 2023 en ontving alom lof van de kritiek.
