Extras (2001)
- Original title
- 群众演员
- Directed by
- Zhu Chuanming
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the lives of struggling film extras in China. It observes their daily routines and modest dreams while working in the margins of the film industry.
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What happens
Extras (Chinese: 群众演员; pinyin: qúnzhòng yǎnyuán) is a 2001 fly on the wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming. The documentary has been seen as tinged with social criticism in its observation of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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