‘Emotional power’: China’s Covid wounds reopened in tense, divisive ‘An Unfinished Film’

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

Cannes 2024: An Unfinished Film review – Chinese director Lou Ye’s chaotic yet powerful drama about Covid lockdown in Wuhan

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