This wonderful documentary about the Chinese artist/dissident will leave you feeling grateful for America's rights to free speech and perhaps wishing, as I did, you had known about him all along. Director/writer/producer/cinematographer/sound recordist Alison Klayman is also credited as narrator, editor, and camera operator on a 2011 Frontline episode about Ai, but actually shadowed the artist from 2008-2011 for this one, her debut in every category. We can only hope she finds another subject about which she is as passionate for her next project.
Winner of the Documentary Special Jury Prize and nominated for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it deserves its high ratings on rottentomatoes (97 critics/89 audiences). Save it to your netflix queue for its eventual DVD release.
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