Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing, France/China/Germany) — Wavelengths

By Daniel Kasman & Christopher Small Published in Cinema Scope 72 (Fall 2017) An old face—skin drawn tautly over jaw and cheekbone, thinning grey hair, eyeballs quivering like tadpoles—is the central image in Wang Bing’s Golden Leopard winner Mrs. Fang. The naked, sober image of this face, which belongs to Fang Xiuying, the film’s bedridden … Continue reading Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing, France/China/Germany) — Wavelengths