Invited to document Mao's cultural revolution, Antonioni shot for two months in China. Rarely seen in full length as a three-part film, it's neither the condemnation of China that the Mao officials claimed, nor a film of Communist sympathies-instead it's a free-form Antonioni essay that contrasts the faces of a nation with the spaces they occupy. This print has been provided by Rai Direzione Teche.
