Michelangelo Antonioni, Chung Kuo Cina, 1974.

To understand China, it is perhaps necessary to live there for a long time. And yet a famous Sinologist, during a debate, observed that every person who spends a month in China feels capable of writing a book, but after spending a few months he may write just a few pages, and eventually, after a few years, he prefers to write nothing at all. It is a witticism, but it confirms how difficult it is to perceive in depth the truth of that land.

“Is it still possible to film a documentary?“, 1974.