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- Les Acacias
- 1 h 26 m
- Les Acacias
- 1 h 26 m
Summary Fang Xiuying was a farm worker born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. For the last eight years of her life she suffered from Alzheimer's. By 2015 the symptoms were quite advanced. Treatment in a convalescent home was ineffective, so in June 2016 it was discontinued and she returned home. We filmed some scenes of her everyday life in 2015, then ...
- Les Acacias
- 1 h 26 m
- Les Acacias
- 1 h 26 m
Mrs. Fang
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Summary Fang Xiuying was a farm worker born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. For the last eight years of her life she suffered from Alzheimer's. By 2015 the symptoms were quite advanced. Treatment in a convalescent home was ineffective, so in June 2016 it was discontinued and she returned home. We filmed some scenes of her everyday life in 2015, then ...
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Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
77
100% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It's a simple, cumulatively shattering record of life as we rarely see it captured in narrative or documentary cinema.
This is a merciless film, and whether the process of teasing its meaning out for yourself feels like a punishment or a reward will depend entirely on your patience and your point of view.
Mrs. Fang is unreservedly voyeuristic, the camera maintaining its own vigil over Xiuying who is seen in lengthy, merciless close-ups staring straight ahead.
There is no denying the visceral power of Wang’s insistence on looking encroaching death, as it were, in the eye and the filmmaker exercises appropriate restraint when the final moment does come.
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Production Company
All Ways Pictures,
Documenta 14,
Idéale Audience,
Wil Productions
Duration 1 h 26 m
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Awards
El Gouna Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 1 Nomination