Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part1of3.avi 
Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part2of3.avi Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part3of3.avi Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part1of3.English.srt Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part2of3.English.srt Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part3of3.English.srt Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part1of3.Chinese(GB).srt Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part2of3.Chinese(GB).srt Chung.Kuo.-.China.(Michelangelo.Antonioni,.1972).TVRip-part3of3.Chinese(GB).srt Antonioni.after.China.-.Art.versus.Science.(Gideon.Bachmann.interviews.Michelangelo.Antonioni).pdf Chung.Kuo.comes.to.China.(Antonioni.-.Sontag.-.Eco).htm An.article.in.Renmin.Ribao.30Jan1974.condemning.Antonioni.for.his.documentary.on.China.(Chung.Kuo).Chinese(GB).html This is a filtered, (partly) resynched and recompressed version of the RMVB files that have popped up on the net a few months ago. I've also added the English and Chinese subs (synched to the AVI version). Comments on the subtitles are greatly appreciated. (Come on, amigos, you must be able to understand Italian better than I do...
)Invited to China by the Chinese government, Antonioni disappointed his hosts by making a film that was China as he saw it, not as they thought it should be shown. Not that it is in any way negative, nor does it go sneakily behind the scenes to subvert the official picture. Instead it tenderly brings to life a world in which images of development and progress interact with those of quiet alleyways where children play aimlessly and old men eternally practise Tai chi.
http://www.bfi.org.uk:8080/incinemas/nft/film/5456
A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai, and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068375/plotsummary
Chung Kuo bears all the marks of Mr. Antonioni's distinctively oblique style, the same enigmatic approach that caused such controversy in the cinema world when L'Avventura was released in 1960. The film contains not a single interview and not a single sentence of political analysis. The filmmaker deliberately rejected the conventions of script or story.
"I went to China not in order to know it but to have a look and to record what was passing in front of my eyes," he said later.
The film succeeds as an artistic work and as a portrait of ordinary life in an isolated country. With his customary detached tone and extremely long takes, the camera gazes at the Chinese people, their faces and movements. Long scenes pass without a word beyond the hubbub of background conversation and the sound of bicycle bells and street noise.
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/02148.htm
