"Critic's Pick! Documents extreme poverty in rural China with the compassionate eye and inexhaustible patience of a director whose curiosity about his country's unfortunates never seems to wane."—The New York Times

"An unquestionably eye-opening, deeply human, strikingly lensed look at an impoverished family whose rudimentary living conditions are a sharp riposte to the illusion of China's economic boom."—Jay Weissberg, Variety

"An affecting look at provincial Chinese life."—Aaron Cutler, The Village Voice

"Exquisite. However briefly, [Yingying] is empress of this inhospitable domain."—Andrew Chan, Film Comment

"One of the most important documentary filmmakers of his generation, and perhaps the preeminent chronicler of contemporary China, Wang Bing returns to the non-fiction realm with Three Sisters, a patient, penetrating, and heartbreaking portrait of three young girls. As he so clearly demonstrated in his towering, 9-hour West of the Tracks (2003), Wang is a master of long-form documentary filmmaking, and here he portrays the lives of his three protagonists, as well as the community and the landscapes around them, with an extraordinary sensitivity, openness, and clarity of vision.—Jed Rapfogel, program director, Anthology Film Archives