The film China banned for being too human.
A young teacher in the first seventeen years of the People's Republic of China approaches the teaching of her students with a humanistic philosophy, which leads to problems with authorities.
Direction
Tian's restraint speaks louder than any overt critique.
Writing
Dialogue so loaded, what's unsaid crushes you.
Director
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned immediately after Tiananmen, September became nearly impossible to see inside China for decades—its very existence an act of memory preservation.
Tian made this after The Horse Thief made him famous; he chose to disappear into small-scale humanism rather than build on that success, effectively career suicide.
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