China’s top film regulator has ordered that all Chinese movies strictly follow rules on approvals before being screened in overseas film festivals, months after a Chinese movie about Covid lockdown triggered heated discussion in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. In a notice issued on Thursday by the China Film Administration, it required that domestically produced … Read more
Much of the film focuses on the mobile phone screen of a film crew member character. On the phone, the audience sees actual news reports and short videos that were posted during the Covid-19 pandemic in China between 2020 and 2022 – most of which were later removed by censors. Nationalist online commenters have argued … Read more
4/5 stars Set mostly within a fenced-off hotel in Wuhan during the Chinese city’s three-month, Covid-induced lockdown in early 2020, An Unfinished Film is chaotic in its form and stuttering in its storytelling. What would have been fatal flaws in other movies, however, turn out to be the strongest parts of mainland Chinese director Lou … Read more
