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Shanghai New Look

VSD:

“China as never seen on TV. Hats off to you guys!”

Lucien Bodard, a senior reporter born in China.

Duration: 33'

© Interscoop, Antenne 2, 1985

A film by Frédéric Laffont

& Eric Schlesser

Edited by Jean-François Giré

Shanghai, 1984. My first "big report."

A Super 8 camera, a Taiwanese student card purchased for $10 in Hong Kong, and here I am, Chinese, in a country that's half-opening its doors. No filming permits. My friend Eric, a sinologist, as my guide. The first post-Mao spaces of freedom filmed by Tintin Reporter.

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