Three Sisters (San Zimei)

- 2012
- France / Hong Kong
- 2h 33min
- Directed by: Bing Wang
- Language: Mandarin
Three young sisters grow up without much parental interference in this quiet film about childhood resilience.
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The resilience of childhood amid extreme poverty.
In a remote mountain village in Yunnan province, the youngest members of a multi-generational peasant farming family, sisters aged ten, six, and four, grow up. Their mother has abandoned them; the father is away for long periods for work; the little girls spend their days playing and helping with chores. An intimate and quiet masterpiece of observational filmmaking.
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