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106m
An Unfinished Film
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Synopsis
Screening at Luna Leederville.
Lou Ye's AN UNFINSHED FILM combines fiction and documentary footage to create a singularly astounding film.
Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January 2020, with the shoot almost complete, rumours regarding an illness begin to circulate. A hairdresser from Wuhan is sent home, while the crew follows the news on their phones. The director has to decide whether to halt the filming once again. Some of the crew and actors manage to leave before the hotel is locked down by security guards and everyone left on set is confined to their hotel rooms. As all communication is reduced to phone screens, Wuhan is locked down. The crew continues to communicate via video calls, whilst the quarantined main actor Jiang Cheng struggles to support his wife who is now locked-down with their month-old baby in Beijing.
Mandarin language with English subtitles.
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Opening Date
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Rating
M
Length
106m
Genre
New Release
Reviews
One of the most thoughtful, truthful and tactful depictions of the pandemic ever put to screen.
★★★★★ This is an utterly unique and very important movie about Covid, the crisis that affected all of us.
An intimate chronicle.
The vertiginous condensing of fiction and nonfiction, of past and present, has a radically destabilizing effect that’s inseparable from the audacity of Lou’s political vision.
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