The Square
Director Dua Jing-Chuan
Countries China
Duration 100 min
Synopsis
Directors Hang Yuan and Dua Jing-Chuan choose not only to focus on the set of one of the most famous squares of the world, Tiananmen, but to also draw a meticulous portrait of the daily life of this place. Directed in 1994, five years after the events on the 4th of June of 1989, the duo steps away from political or historical considerations. They choose instead to reveal the daily details: a police statue, the image of tourists taking pictures, the rite to hoist and to strike the flag, or people making exercise.
Directors Hang Yuan and Dua Jing-Chuan choose not only to focus on the set of one of the most famous squares of the world, Tiananmen, but to also draw a meticulous portrait of the daily life of this place. Directed in 1994, five years after the events on the 4th of June of 1989, the duo steps away from political or historical considerations. They choose instead to reveal the daily details: a police statue, the image of tourists taking pictures, the rite to hoist and to strike the flag, or people making exercise.