Youth (Spring)

Name: Youth (Spring)
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 10, 2023
Duration: 215 min
Rating: 74

2023

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

Youth (Spring) (US Trailer 1)

Now Playing: Youth (Spring) (US Trailer 1)

Movie Details & Credits

Icarus Films | Release Date: November 10, 2023 | Not Rated

Summary: Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai - the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitaryLiming is a worker district close to Shanghai - the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitary rooms, or sometimes in small studios. Time and space to meet is missing them. So, they communicate through QQ, MSN China. They live as adults but they are teenagers.… Expand

Director: Bing Wang

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 215 min

See All Details and Credits

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Nov 10, 2023

Wang’s non-adherence to narrative lines deliberately prevents the sense of sustained drama. Still, every sequence has some emotional or dramatic hook to make it engaging. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Croll

May 26, 2023

Like a Brueghel or a Bosch, Youth (Spring) is less an individual portrait than a bustling portrayal of types — lovesick fools and weary old souls, agitators and wallflowers, peacocks and young parents-to-be, all united and made equal by the same shared and endless labor and the same cramped living quarters. And all of them — but for two outliers — united by age. Read full review

The Film Stage Ethan Vestby

Sep 14, 2023

Maybe there’s not much space for beauty, yet there’s still a thrill from the trademark jerky camera movements that follow Wang Bing’s subjects. His often muddy-but-striking images always figure out a way to compose bodies somewhere between ultra-realism and painterly precision. Read full review

Dave Calhoun

May 26, 2023

Wang’s film feels less like an exposé than an eye-opener; a portrait of a reality that feels almost otherworldly in its distance and difference. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 26, 2023

It’s possible to be slightly overwhelmed by the scale and the social realist detail of the film, which was shot over a five-year period from 2014 to 2019, but the hope and idealism of the young workers is moving. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

May 26, 2023

The result is the depiction of a seemingly sealed-in, quasi-carceral world, revealing how much China’s current economy – after decades, and multiple phases, of Communism – is now built on old-school sweatshop capitalism, with youth a readily available, and very disposable, commodity. Read full review

The Playlist Gregory Ellwood

May 26, 2023

Over the course of three and a half hours, Bang both refutes and affirms the criticisms over working conditions for these workers, many of whom are migrants, traveling hundreds of miles (or more) to make money for their families back home. Read full review

SEE ALL 14 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

No reviews yet.