Once Upon a Time Proletarian / Once Upon a Time Proletarian: 12 Tales of a Country (2009)

Directed by

Xiaolu Guo

How it feels

A Chinese film in 12 chapters, each looking at a different person in modern China. It shows a landless farmer, a wealthy stock trader, a young car washer, a factory worker longing for Mao, a hotel owner praising the economy, and children who want to be Western artists. The movie examines how people search for meaning and identity after the country's revolutionary past.

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