Thinking Aloud About Film: One Second (Zhang Yimou, 2020)

https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/25/one-second-zhang-yimou-2020/ Zhang Yimou’s very beautiful film has things to say about the cultural revolution and Chinese History and other things we’re not best placed to discuss. However, it is also about cinema: it’s lure, it’s power, its enchantments and its fragility; and Zhang Yimou’s magisterial mise-en-scène embodies its themes through its medium as if in the process of unfurling from an editing sweet, to a projector and onto a screen.