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  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Icarus Films
  • 3 h 47 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Icarus Films
  • 3 h 47 m

Summary Director Wang Bing documents the inmates of an isolated mental institution in rural Zhaotong, in southwest China's Yunnan province, in 'Til Madness Do Us Part. Within the facility's gates, the patients are confined to one floor of a single building. Once locked on that floor, with little contact from the outside world, anything goes. The...

Directed By: Wang Bing

  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Icarus Films
  • 3 h 47 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Icarus Films
  • 3 h 47 m

'Til Madness Do Us Part

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary Director Wang Bing documents the inmates of an isolated mental institution in rural Zhaotong, in southwest China's Yunnan province, in 'Til Madness Do Us Part. Within the facility's gates, the patients are confined to one floor of a single building. Once locked on that floor, with little contact from the outside world, anything goes. The...

Directed By: Wang Bing

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Jun 6, 2016
Wang's film is as bewildering and heartbreaking as it is insightful, in its depiction of the daily existence of the institution's residents.
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88
Jun 6, 2016
Wang Bing intends to give back to the inmates the opportunity for individual expression that society has robbed them of.
By James Lattimer FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 9, 2016
This overlong (nearly four hours) but sporadically extraordinary portrait of a forgotten corner of society may be tough going even for fans of forbidding cinema.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 8, 2016
You don't watch prolific doc-master Wang Bing's new film about a Chinese mental hospital so much as get imprisoned within it, pacing its dingy corridors and rooms like a zoo animal.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 6, 2016
As the hours roll slowly past, it’s hard not to feel that this epic achievement in monotonous misery might have retained its impact at a fraction of the length, and that even our grimmest truth-tellers might well find themselves capable of saying more with less.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Moviola, Rai Cinema, Y. Production
Release Date Jun 9, 2016
Duration 3 h 47 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.moviola.jp/shuuyou/
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Awards

Nantes Three Continents Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Fribourg International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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