Sentences with phrase «xi qu»

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.