Icarus Films has taken North American rights to Youth (Spring), the newest feature from Venice prizer winner Wang Bing, which earlier this year became one of the first documentaries admitted to Cannes ...

Youth (Spring)—the first installment of Wang Bing’s larger project Spring—is a laborious film, in terms not only of its mammoth runtime of 212 minutes, but also ...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Icarus Films releases the film at NYC’s Metrograph on Friday, November 10. The opening panel of an eventual ...

Check the label on that garment hanging in your closet. If it reads “Made in China,” there’s a chance it was stitched together by one of the characters in Wang Bing’s documentary Youth (Spring), or ...

The three-and-a-half-hour Cannes competition entry from the renowned documaker embeds with garment workers essentially living in factories. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Like Wang’s ...

In his new film, Youth (Spring), the prolific director examines how the People’s Republic became the workshop for much of the world. A scene from Youth (Spring). Wang Bing might be the world’s hardest ...

The repetitive, monotonous rhythm of life for the young seasonal employees of China's clothing-manufacturing workshops is this expansive documentary's poignancy, but also its problem. Courtesy of ...

Wang Bing’s immersive, 3.5-hour opus heralds a welcome return of the documentary genre to the Cannes Palme d’Or race. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Cannes Film ...