An Unfinished Film
Cannes Film Festival
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1h 47m
In January 2020, director Xiaorui (Mao Xiaorui) reunites his cast and crew to complete a film that was abandoned during production ten years earlier. However, the team is suddenly placed into lockdown together during the onset of COVID-19. Confronted with the challenges of the pandemic, Xiaorui and his crew are forced to determine how to move forward in a rapidly changing world.
From acclaimed director Lou Ye (Suzhou River, Summer Palace), An Unfinished Film is an “utterly unique and very important movie about Covid, the crisis that affected all of us” (The Guardian). Combining fiction and documentary footage together, Lou Ye both commemorates those lost to the virus and creates “one of the most thoughtful, truthful and tactful depictions of the pandemic ever put to screen” (The Wrap).
“Poignant…Life gets in the way of art all the time, and art can be made out of life. What matters, the movie suggests, is hanging onto one another for dear life.” –The New York Times (Critic's Pick)
DIRECTED BY LOU YE
SINGAPORE, GERMANY | 2024 | CHINESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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