‘Night Is Not Eternal’ Review: Nanfu Wang Keenly Observes the Fight for Freedom in Cuba at a Crucial Moment
variety.comCarlos Aguilar While most nonfiction filmmakers remove themselves from the narrative equation of their work, never explicitly addressing their personal investment nor including their image or voice on screen, Chinese documentarian Nanfu Wang has forged her career doing exactly the opposite.
The way her narration factors into each of her features, she has enmeshed her own experiences in relation to the subject to contextualize the macro themes of the piece.
Her latest, “Night Is Not Eternal,” continues along the same creative lines for a piercing dual portrait of two women — one of them being Wang — familiar with similar evils.
Wang’s self-referential approach here manifests itself through the presence of footage from several of her films, most notably her 2016 debut “Hooligan Sparrow,” about activists demanding justice in a case of sexual abuse against elementary school girls.
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