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  • 2023
  • Les Acacias
  • 3 h 32 m
  • 2023
  • Les Acacias
  • 3 h 32 m
Youth (Spring)

Summary Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai - the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanita...

Directed By: Wang Bing

Written By: Wang Bing

  • 2023
  • Les Acacias
  • 3 h 32 m
  • 2023
  • Les Acacias
  • 3 h 32 m

Youth (Spring)

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai - the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanita...

Directed By: Wang Bing

Written By: Wang Bing

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
11 Reviews
21% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
11 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Nov 10, 2023
Wang’s non-adherence to narrative lines deliberately prevents the sense of sustained drama. Still, every sequence has some emotional or dramatic hook to make it engaging.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
83
May 26, 2023
Like a Brueghel or a Bosch, Youth (Spring) is less an individual portrait than a bustling portrayal of types — lovesick fools and weary old souls, agitators and wallflowers, peacocks and young parents-to-be, all united and made equal by the same shared and endless labor and the same cramped living quarters. And all of them — but for two outliers — united by age.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 9, 2023
While the running time may be indulgent, the experience of feeling trapped in this world is difficult to shake.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
80
May 26, 2023
Wang’s film feels less like an exposé than an eye-opener; a portrait of a reality that feels almost otherworldly in its distance and difference.
By Dave Calhoun FULL REVIEW
70
May 26, 2023
The result is the depiction of a seemingly sealed-in, quasi-carceral world, revealing how much China’s current economy – after decades, and multiple phases, of Communism – is now built on old-school sweatshop capitalism, with youth a readily available, and very disposable, commodity.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 16, 2024
The immense length and repetitive format can sometimes make the film feel like an endurance test. To say that its pacing is glacial would be unfair to the melting ice caps.
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42
May 26, 2023
Over the course of three and a half hours, Bang both refutes and affirms the criticisms over working conditions for these workers, many of whom are migrants, traveling hundreds of miles (or more) to make money for their families back home.
By Gregory Ellwood FULL REVIEW

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Production Company House on Fire, Gladys Glover Films, CS Productions, Arte France Cinéma, Les Films Fauves, Volya Films, Eastern-Lion Pictures and Culture Media, Beijing Contemporary Art foundation, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, CNC Aide aux cinémas du monde - Institut Français, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Institut Français, Eurimages, Fondation F.A.M.S. (Feldstein Abitbol), Luxembourg Film Fund, Hubert Bals Fund, Nederlands Filmfonds, La Région Île-de-France, Image/Mouvement du Centre National des Arts Plastiques, ARTE
Release Date Nov 10, 2023
Duration 3 h 32 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Golden Horse Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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