A Portrait of Mr Huang

Audience Score
70
A Portrait of Mr Huang
NR 40 min
Part of Qiu Jiongjiongs chatterbox oral history trilogy this short documentary focuses on current storyteller and excop Huang Songnian Qiu playfully splices montage cuts between Huangs wildly entertaining sometimes very dark stories of intrepid forensic police work including a super queasy tale of maggots and a body and another of rural cannibalism and disruptive yet oddly suitable Sichuan opera excerpts pigeon portraits and Qius charming chalk drawings

Movie Details

Original Language:Chinese