‘Youth: Homecoming’ Review: Director Wang Bing Shines A Light On Workers Whose Lives Nobody Would Want — Venice Film Festival

Fiercely independent Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing spent five years filming young workers in Zhili, an industrial region near Shanghai where around 18,000 garment workshops churn out cheap clothes for the domestic market. The workshops run on cheap labor from the provinces; around 200,000 make the long trek from their home villages for six-month periods, living […]