Mrs. Fang

The documentary was shot in a quiet village in southern China. Fang Xiuying is sixty seven years old. She has been living with Alzheimer’s for several years. The symptoms are far along. Treatment did not work, and she was sent home. She can no longer get out of bed. Her relatives and neighbours are around her. They keep her company through her last days. The camera bears witness to those days. The account dresses nothing up. The daily life of the village goes on outside the room. The camera does not leave the woman’s side. The film shows not only the dying but those keeping her company. Wang Bing’s coproduction of China, France, Greece and Hong Kong, eighty six minutes long, was completed in 2018.