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China Heavyweight
Directed by
Yung Chang
Not Rated
2012
1h 34m
Documentary
,
Sport
6.4
82%
60%
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A documentary on rural teenagers in southwestern China who are recruited as their country's next Olympic hopefuls, with a focus on the coach Qi Moxiang.
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Cast of China Heavyweight
Zongli He
Self
Yunfei Miao
Self
Moxiang Qi
Self
Ye Xinchun
Self
Zhong Zhao
Self
Yung Chang
Director / Writer
Yi Han
Producer
Bob Moore
Producer
Peter Wintonick
Producer
Qi Zhao
Producer
China Heavyweight Ratings & Reviews
Punch Drunk Critics
Roxana Hadadi
A thought-provoking work, a documentary with as much brain as it has brawn.
Film Comment Magazine
Meredith Slifkin
Chang works within the philosophical framework of the world of boxing to paint a poignant and often incisive portrait of the evolving Chinese cultural landscape and the temptations and ambitions that come with change.
Shockya.com
Brent Simon
Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang returns to China for another unexpectedly lyrical snapshot of that country's rapidly changing economic and cultural landscapes.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Claude Peck
This ain't no Rocky, and your take-aways are mostly about Chinese family and social customs.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Focuses on the stories of three boxers and weaves them into a compelling narrative that rivals anything Hollywood could script.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Yung seems to anticipate real-life emotional beats and positions his camera at exactly the right moments, yet nothing seems artificial or scripted. The result is an unexpectedly tender film about the price of coming into one's own.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
The documentary is fluid, detailed and well photographed by Sun Shaoguang.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Perhaps by focusing on something that is so much an individual sport, Chang creates a deep sense of tension between singular people and the bigger concerns of history, the team or country.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
China Heavyweight is an uneasy mixture of familiar sports doc tropes and sociological portraiture.
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Louis Proyect
A useful reminder that China's efforts to "catch up" with the West includes a descent into savagery.
Variety
Justin Chang
An intimate and affecting account of two aspiring boxers from the sticks training under the same hard-working coach.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
In China Heavyweight, we have a new variant on an old theme, but the idealism and heartbreak on view are timeless and universal.
Slant Magazine
Kalvin Henely
Although we never really get to know He or Miao, despite following them around vrit-style, director Yung Chang expertly captures the rays of Western culture bouncing off them.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Portrait[s] of the individual determination and nationalistic fervor that seems to driv[e] China to the top in so many fields surmounts the sameness of this universal story.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Call it "Rocky,'' Asian style.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Mr. Sun straddles ancient and modern, tranquillity and turmoil, with equal sureness.
Film Journal International
Chris Barsanti
This vibrant documentary about young rural Chinese boxers has many of the hallmarks of greatness but keeps its subjects at too much of a remove to achieve it.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Chang falls into a repetitive training-advice-meal scene structure that's less than revelatory, and the bouts are so blurrily filmed and so leavened with reaction shots that you can't really see what's going down.
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