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- Salón de Belleza
- 2 h 4 m
- Salón de Belleza
- 2 h 4 m
Summary Millions of Chinese people do live streaming. Those whose poverty, physical shortcomings or gender prevent them from taking part in the real world find human contact here; fragments of lives that are interwoven with virtual showrooms.
Directed By: Shengze Zhu
Written By: Shengze Zhu
- Salón de Belleza
- 2 h 4 m
- Salón de Belleza
- 2 h 4 m
Present.Perfect.
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Summary Millions of Chinese people do live streaming. Those whose poverty, physical shortcomings or gender prevent them from taking part in the real world find human contact here; fragments of lives that are interwoven with virtual showrooms.
Directed By: Shengze Zhu
Written By: Shengze Zhu
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
72
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Zhu Shengze’s poignant Present.Perfect. follows a dozen anchors over a period of ten months. It distills some 800 hours of live footage into a 124-minute documentary–a black-and-white collage stirring questions that far transcend the country and the zeitgeist it captures.
[A] fascinating, troubling but overlong documentary.
Composed entirely of found footage and presented in black and white to lend visual consistency, the film raises important questions about the politics of viewership, the documentary form’s complex ties to reality and about human relationships in a digitally connected world.
What the film depicts is at times creepy and unsettling, but it lifts the lid on an aspect of the virtual world which may be unfamiliar to audiences in the west.
Punctuated with moments of illumination, humor and even occasional visual flair —the opening shot executes a stately 360-degree cityscape pan from a high crane — Present. Perfect manages to retain interest despite a certain repetitiveness and some patience-taxing longueurs.
This is a film in touch with modernity, but I wonder if the livestreamers were quite as apolitical as this film makes them appear. And I was unsure about Zhu’s decision to correct all the images from colour to black-and-white, an arthouse-ification that the film didn’t need.
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Production Company
Burn the Film Production House,
Tender Madness Pictues
Duration 2 h 4 m
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Awards
FICUNAM Festival International de Cine UNAM
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
