Icarus FilmsOften in “All About My Sisters,” the Chinese filmmaker Wang Qiong’s documentary portrait of her family, you might forget that what you’re watching is filtered through a camera. Over a period of seven years, Wang filmed her parents, siblings and relatives from within the emotional thicket of their lives, capturing moments of piercing, private intimacy. Her approach yields a film bristling with the kind of familial rancor that usually only emerges behind closed doors.中国电影制作人王琼的纪录片《家庭录像》(All About My Sisters)记录了她的家庭，在观影时，你可能会忘记自己是通过摄影机的镜头看到这些画面的。
There’s plenty to warrant this bitterness, starting with the fact that Wang’s younger sister, Zhou Jin, was abandoned as a newborn before being retrieved and then given to an uncle to raise. That was in the 1990s, when the combination of China’s one-child policy and a widespread cultural preference for sons had tragic consequences. As we learn over the course of the film’s epic (yet impressively brisk-moving) three-hour arc, Jin’s is one of the many stories of abandoned babies, sex-selective abortions and female infanticide that haunt Wang’s family history.有这些苦楚是因为这个家庭发生了太多悲剧，首先是王琼的妹妹周金，她从一出生就被遗弃，后来又被父母接回来，然后又给了一个叔叔去养。
” she asks her older sister, Wang Li, whose husband is desperate for a male heir. Li’s response is simple but profound: “The world is horrible to us, too. Every move is a risk.”At times, Wang’s candor can be unsettling: I wondered about the ethics of her unflattering portrayal of Jin, who is seen being cruel to her toddler, as if re-enacting her own traumas. In such moments, “All About My Sisters” teeters discomfitingly between the personal and the political, revealing how little separates the two.王琼既不是一个默不作声的观察者，也不是一个正式的采访者，在她拍下的场景中，她是一个主动的参与者，在手持摄影机的背后，她常常会做出温柔的干预 ... 阅读全文
There’s plenty to warrant this bitterness, starting with the fact that Wang’s younger sister, Zhou Jin, was abandoned as a newborn before being retrieved and then given to an uncle to raise. That was in the 1990s, when the combination of China’s one-child policy and a widespread cultural preference for sons had tragic consequences. As we learn over the course of the film’s epic (yet impressively brisk-moving) three-hour arc, Jin’s is one of the many stories of abandoned babies, sex-selective abortions and female infanticide that haunt Wang’s family history.有这些苦楚是因为这个家庭发生了太多悲剧，首先是王琼的妹妹周金，她从一出生就被遗弃，后来又被父母接回来，然后又给了一个叔叔去养。
” she asks her older sister, Wang Li, whose husband is desperate for a male heir. Li’s response is simple but profound: “The world is horrible to us, too. Every move is a risk.”At times, Wang’s candor can be unsettling: I wondered about the ethics of her unflattering portrayal of Jin, who is seen being cruel to her toddler, as if re-enacting her own traumas. In such moments, “All About My Sisters” teeters discomfitingly between the personal and the political, revealing how little separates the two.王琼既不是一个默不作声的观察者，也不是一个正式的采访者，在她拍下的场景中，她是一个主动的参与者，在手持摄影机的背后，她常常会做出温柔的干预 ... 阅读全文