Cannes 2023 #9, with Justin Chang, Dennis Lim, and Rachel Rosen
The Film Comment Podcast
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The Zone of Interest
The film is about this Chinese composer, Wang Sheilin, who underwent basically many horrors during and after the Cultural Revolution. He was in labor camps, was tortured, many of his family members died. His music very much reflects his experiences and his memories from those times. And it's very striking because it takes, like, music as a kind of testimony, but also, like, body,.
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