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Present.Perfect.

Wan mei jin xing shi

2019

Shengze Zhu

Documentary

6.2

22

Documentary Millions of Chinese people do live streaming. Those whose poverty, physical shortcomings or gender prevent them from taking part in the real world, find human contact here. A collective portrait based on 800 hours of video material shows fragments of lives that are interwoven with virtual showrooms. The Western circuit of vloggers and YouTubers is dwarfed by live-streaming in China, which in a short time has become an industry worth ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"It's a rich pageant of the quotidian (...) 'Present. Perfect' manages to retain interest despite a certain repetitiveness and some patience-taxing longueurs."	POS
Canada	Paige Lim Screen Anarchy	"It’s a daring and unpolished effort that challenges the boundaries of documentation by re-defining the found footage genre"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Interesting and at times eerie (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"The emotional dependence on connections forged over the internet that gives the film its queasily troubling fascination"	POS
United States	Leonardo Goi The Film Stage	"A black-and-white collage stirring questions that far transcend the country and the zeitgeist it captures."	POS

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