Bitter Money

Director: Wang Bing, Wang Bing, Wang Bing

2016 / 152min / DCP

To understand contemporary China, caught in a Great Leap Forward from feudalism into postmodernity, you can ask for no better guide than Wang, whose films render the lives of the working poor and internal migrant Chinese down to their bare, harsh physical facts. In Bitter Money, he follows two teenage cousins journeying together to the city of Huzhou, seeking a better life and discovering only endless labor, abusive interpersonal relationships, and exploitation without recourse. Harrowing and massively humane.

Introduction from filmmaker Wang Bing on Saturday, September 30th