Bitter Money

Name: Bitter Money
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 12, 2018
Duration: 152 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Ling Ling

2018

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Icarus Films | Release Date: January 12, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Ling Ling

Summary: The city of Huzhou, where the film is shot, is home to 18,000 clothing factories. They are staffed by about 300,000 workers, many of them migrants from rural areas in the surrounding provinces. Bitter Money follows a handful of these workers, both at work where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day and in their off-hours, as they hangThe city of Huzhou, where the film is shot, is home to 18,000 clothing factories. They are staffed by about 300,000 workers, many of them migrants from rural areas in the surrounding provinces. Bitter Money follows a handful of these workers, both at work where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day and in their off-hours, as they hang around shabby dorms drinking, dreaming of home, worrying about getting paid, and trying to decide whether their jobs are worth keeping.… Expand

Director: Bing Wang

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 152 min

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Leo Goldsmith

Jan 18, 2018

We are not, as in so many a contemporary documentary, made to merely identify with the position of cameraperson, but are forced to consider and find our own ethical and political positions. Read full review

Peter Goldberg

Jan 10, 2018

Wang Bing's documentaries are angry, raw testaments to the human spirit in the face of social injustice. In this regard, his latest, the harrowing, soulful Bitter Money, is fortunately no exception. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Jan 10, 2018

A characteristically rough-edged work, both visually and in the sound recording, the film eschews aesthetic finesse to follow its multiple characters where situations demand, to strikingly vivid effect. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 11, 2018

It’s not clear that the director quite found what he was looking for. Read full review

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