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[Archive]

Film

Il bravo gatto prende i topi

Having the world’s largest population makes China a main player on the international scene, putting it in a role that has revealed some of its darker aspects: denial of civil rights, poor working conditions, widespread environmental problems, backward rural life. Close to 800 million Chinese live in rural areas. Although living conditions have improved, they contrast sharply with the growth of cities in the coastal regions.
In this collection of microstories the documentary unites the many voices of Chinese peasants.
The title quotes a famous phrase by Deng Xiaoping from the early 1960s: “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice,” which somehow summarizes the Chinese people’s pragmatic spirit, determination and pride.

Il regista / The Director

Film authors, directors and producers since 1980, Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini pursue a line of research that has led them to experiment with different forms of language and narrative, with a preference for the documentary as a means to tell the story of our age.
Of their many films (Strade Blu. Storie dalla provincia americana; Il Diario bolognese di Tahar Ben Jelloun, Taccuino Indiano) produced chiefly for RAI, several have been screened at the Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and received international awards.

“Shooting in rural China and in the east coast cities, which have absorbed tens of millions of villagers in search of work, was, besides the professional challenge, an extraordinary life experience.
On our journey we rediscovered the true meaning of curiosity and of the willingness to listen; we also realized that our interpretation and view of the world is neither objective nor definitive but just one of many possible readings. Today more than ever, in order to understand change and form an opinion, one needs to have different points of view to account for the complexity of a place, a people, a world. Our films are intended as modest attempts at unravelling this complexity.”

Edizione 2007
CONCORSO DOCUMENTARI ITALIANI

DOCUMENTARY
Italy , 2006, 85'

REGIA/DIRECTOR
Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini

TAGS:
Urbanization, China