90 mins |
Rated
UN15+
Alone is a documentary depicting the lives of three young girls, Fen (4), Zhen (6) and Ying (10) in rural, south west China. These young children have been left by both their mother (for reasons which remain largely unknown) and by their father, who left the family home to undertake work in another city to send money back home. Visually, the film’s landscape scenes are so vivid and plush it’s easy to forget that its very barrenness and their lack of food has forced the girls’ father away.
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Alone is a documentary depicting the lives of three young girls, Fen (4), Zhen (6) and Ying (10) in rural, south west China. These young children have been left by both their mother (for reasons which remain largely unknown) and by their father, who left the family home to undertake work in another city to send money back home. Visually, the film’s landscape scenes are so vivid and plush it’s easy to forget that its very barrenness and their lack of food has forced the girls’ father away.