A Strong Woman | Telescope Film
A Strong Woman

A Strong Woman (一个坚强的女性)

  • China
  • 1986
  • · 17m

Directors Wang Zijun, Bai Shuwei
Cast Bai Shuwei
Genre Documentary

A documentary report on Hu Jieqing, Lao She's wife.

Stream A Strong Woman

We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.

What are critics saying?

100

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

A Fantastic Woman is a brilliant film: a richly humane, moving study of someone keeping alive the memory and the fact of love.

100

Total Film by Kevin Harley

Defiant, determined, Vega delivers a star-making performance in a drama of embattled grief, directed with heart.

100

St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Calvin Wilson

In our increasingly polarized time, A Fantastic Woman bridges the gap between ignorance and understanding through the transcendent power of art.

100

Consequence by Danielle Solzman

To say that Vega is marvelous in her portrayal of Marina is nothing short of an understatement. She’s an inspiration to transgender and non-binary people across the globe, all while delivering the performance of a lifetime.

100

Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

There are moments here that arrest you with their hallucinatory power.

100

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Psychologically astute and socially aware as the film is, it is also infused with mystery and melodrama, with bright colors and emotional shadows.

100

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

Shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative, this is a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vision.

100

The Guardian by Ryan Gilbey

It may be a timely film, but it is its timelessness, as well as its depths of compassion, that qualify it as a great one.

100

CineVue by Patrick Gamble

It's how the film handles grief and alienation which makes Marina's story so compelling.

91

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

The superb Vega’s steady, liquid, fathomless gaze is so direct that we come to understand that behind it, behind the barricade of defenses she’s built up against an unfriendly world, she is no enigma at all: she is completely known to herself.