Song Fang
The Calming (Song Fang, China)
By Courtney Duckworth | 12/22/2020 | CS85, Fall Festival Spotlight, Festivals, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Courtney Duckworth Inertia implies stillness, but more precisely it means that without intervention any body resists change. The word conjures ceaseless motion as much as it does stasis—someone who cannot go on, or someone who can do nothing else. Something of this semantic tension imbues The Calming, writer-director Song Fang’s ascetic second feature. Lin…
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