China Heavyweight

Name: China Heavyweight
Genre: Sport, Documentary
Released: July 6, 2012
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Moxiang Qi, Yunfei Miao

2012

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: July 6, 2012 | Not Rated

Starring: Moxiang Qi, Yunfei Miao

Summary: In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. The top students face dramatic choices as they graduate – should they fight for the collective good or for themselves? A metaphor for the choices everyone in the New China faces now. (Eye Steel Film)

Director: Yung Chang

Genre(s): Sport, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Liam Lacey

Jul 1, 2012

As with his previous film, director Chang nurses a compelling drama from a multilayered cultural reality, at once intimate and unfathomably large in implications. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Jul 6, 2012

It's really about the ways in which Chinese westernization clashes with the traditionalism of Confucian teachings. It's about competition versus piety. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jul 5, 2012

As he did in his Three Gorges Dam documentary "Up the Yangtze," Chang examines how a particular strain of Western culture promises opportunity and prosperity for Chinese youth, even as it remains a continual source of intergenerational tension. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Jul 6, 2012

Chang doesn't pull his punches in this continuing look at a changing, out-of-control China. Read full review

Janice Page

Sep 19, 2012

Where Wiseman excelled in respecting the broad rhythms and pure storytelling of the ring, Chang's new documentary focuses on the stories of three boxers and weaves them into a compelling narrative that rivals anything Hollywood could script. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Jul 19, 2012

With observant fluidity and that grounding point of Qi's desire to fight once again, Chang roots the film in personal, individual stories, keeping larger metaphors for the nation at the edges. Read full review

Kalvin Henely

Jul 6, 2012

Although we never really get to know He or Miao, despite following them around vérité-style, director Yung Chang expertly captures the rays of Western culture bouncing off them. Read full review

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