A cinematic feature documentary about China's foray into Africa told through the lives of Chinese adventurers & Zambian power brokers as they negotiate the tricky waters of this rapidly expanding and vital relationship.... (Full plot summary below)
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A cinematic feature documentary about China's foray into Africa told through the lives of Chinese adventurers & Zambian power brokers as they negotiate the tricky waters of this rapidly expanding and vital relationship.
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| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA movie that will become increasingly important the more the world tilts in China's favour. |
| ViewLondonIsabel StevensThe film's cinematography is undoubtedly its strength. |
| Little White LiesNick HastedMundane misunderstandings and exploitation stick in the mind. |
| GuardianAndrew PulverAn eye-opening documentary that puts into concrete images that truism of the geo-political commentariat: that China is a new economic superpower. |
| The SkinnyDanny ScottThe Francis brothers offer us a unique insight into a hidden corner of the present and an insightful glimpse of an emerging world order. |
| User ReviewMorad TThe documentary focus on China-Zambia relations. It is very educative and balanced in the portrayal of the Chinese and Zambians. It's worth the watch. |
| User ReviewToby ZThis is fascinating to watch - to me, it feels like a new China in a new Africa. Feels like a world away from what I knew. |
| User ReviewMike MRemains scrupulously neutral, unwilling to editorialise on whether this neo-colonialism is entirely good or bad, and - if it isn't - whether you or I have any power to stop it; it secures access to high-level meetings seemingly just to reinforce the idea we don't usually get access to high-level meetings. The results are interesting - affording us the sensation of eavesdropping on trade talk, getting the skinny on how our planet will be shaped in the coming decades - but somewhat limited in its aims and impact, particularly when set against 2009's extraordinary "Last Train Home", a more human and expansive depiction of the heightened Chinese work ethic. By way of compensation, the Francises carry over from "Black Gold" their acute visual sense, contrasting underdeveloped African outposts with the futuristic metropoli where the brokers and moneymen negotiate the fate of millions, and - in both locations - making much of the posters, murals and banners that seek to impose Asian business ideals on their immediate surroundings. As one Zambian exec states, the writing is, in every sense, on the wall. This would appear China's world now; the rest of us are merely living in it. |
