Storyline
A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, remote and developing areas in southwest China, and metropolitan cities like Beijing from 2000 to 2004 to document the social changes in contemporary China. The director sympathetically and erotically represents a variety of women, including women as laborers, women as prayers, women in the ground, women in marriage, and women who lie on the funeral pyre with their dead husbands. Her camera juxtaposes the mountains and rivers in old times, the commercialized handicrafts as exposition, the capital exploitation of the elders’ living space, and the erotic freedom of the young people in a changing city.
Cast & Crew
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Ming Ming
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LeadST
Shi Tou
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What People Are Saying
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“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ming Ming's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Women 50 Minutes is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
