Chronicle of a Chinese Woman

One winter in China. A snowbound town at dusk, a woman wrapped in a red coat. She slowly walks across the city to reach her modest apartment. Entering the living room, Fengming sits down comfortably in an armchair and begins to remember. Her memories take us back to the beginning, 1949, and we then spool forward over the next thirty years of her life in the then new China. Director Wang Bing comments: «In 1995 I met He Fengming and she recounted her life through all the successive political movements that affected China, her family, friends, and all the others who shared the same fate. Today, her memories have not faded; they remain with her, like ghosts that return to take us back to those periods of terror and extremism. —pardo.ch