Fengming, a Chinese Memoir Wang Bing, 2007

Fengming, or Mrs He, lived through the whole of turbulent recent Chinese history. She wrote a book that is a document about the harsh life that did not only affect her focusing on one crucial year from that history: 1957, when moderate forces lost out in China. The filmmaker gave the woman all the space she needed to tell her story, that is why the film has such a respectable length, being over three hours long. Wang Bing listened closely to the woman and also manages to make the viewer do the same. The simple form gradually even becomes a precondition to preserve the emotional power of the life story.