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One Child Nation
Directed by
Nanfu Wang
,
Zhang Jialing
R
2019
88m
Documentary
,
History
7.5
98%
86%
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First-time mother and filmmaker Nanfu Wang uncovers the untold history of China's One-Child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
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Cast of One Child Nation
Nanfu Wang
Self / Director / Producer
Jiaoming Pang
Self
Brian Stuy
Self
Longlan Stuy
Self
Zhang Jialing
Director / Producer
Christopher Clements
Producer
Julie Goldman
Producer
Carolyn Hepburn
Producer
Christoph Jörg
Producer
One Child Nation Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
David Fear
What eventually emerges is a peerless portrait of collective trauma - a devastating look at how this law not only sociologically gutted a country but made everyone complicit in the crime.
National Catholic Register
Steven D. Greydanus
The filmmakers' politics aside, 'One Child Nation' is overwhelmingly, and on multiple levels, a pro-life film.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
[A] houghtful and sobering dissection of the human toll of government rule.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The one-child era is still recent enough to exist in living memory, but that won't always be the case; given authoritarian governments' habit of rewriting history to their liking, One Child Nation feels like an essential document.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
One Child Nation does not flinch from critiquing mass complicity and the broader cultural logic - specifically the indoctrination into party politics - undergirding it.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Wang hopes her film will serve to bear witness to the suffering of this shameful period, now being purged from the collective memory with "Nineteen Eighty-Four"-like efficiency.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
As a rule, talking heads do not make for compelling film. But such heads, and such talk.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
[Nanfu] Wang began this film as a way to rediscover her own past. It does far more than that. It will help ensure that the full tragedy of those years is not forgotten. Anyone who sees this film is not likely to forget.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
In a very full and riveting 85 minutes, "One Child Nation" assembles a huge story together from many small, crucial pieces.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
This is an important film, if often a difficult one to watch.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
This sort of film calls for bracing yourself and keeping your eyes open. Funny how many of those there are these days.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It's stunning, it's sickening, it's heartbreaking.
Slate
Inkoo Kang
Its directness and intimacy lend an indelibility that encyclopedic framing could never approximate. The one-child policy haunts Wang, and she wants it to haunt the viewer, too.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
What we learn is fascinating and troubling, albeit within a narrow range.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Shocking as it may be, One Child Nation needs to be seen.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Soul-baring and furious, the documentary "One Child Nation" takes a powerful, unflinching look at China's present through its past.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
The individual stories that make up "One Child Nation," illuminate an entire history of institutional corruption, medical brutality and pervasive misogyny.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
The movie offers an urgent and affecting reminder of what happens when the rule of law subsumes not just free will but the very act of existing - and the humanity that still, against all odds, endures.
AV Club
Lawrence Garcia
As wide-ranging in scope as it is horrifying in its particulars, the film does the necessary work of illuminating, for a large audience, a dark chapter of Chinese history.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Rich in intimate detail, the film attains a more epic power as it burrows deeper into the effects of China's one-child policy.
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