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The Good Woman of Sichuan

The Good Woman of Sichuan

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 5, 2021

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

四川好女人

Director

Sabrina Zhao

Description

A young woman goes on an anonymous journey to her late husband's hometown Leshan, a small city in Sichuan province. There, she meets an old friend, a local theatre actress preparing for an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Sichuan). In a home-place unfamiliar, the traveling woman meets the imaginary. Ghosted by Shen Te the protagonist of the play, the actress loses the self at the intersection between fiction and reality. Unprepared, the filmmaker loses control of her camera. Together, they drift into a polyrhythmic experience of stasis.