An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye, 2024) & Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki, 2023)
An Unfinished Film is a fascinating COVID-19 drama by the Chinese master Lou Ye, which had its world premiere in Cannes last year.
Every filmmaker knows the horror of a possibly unfinished film. In An Unfinished Film, a clever work of fiction presented as a docu drama, it happens to director Xiaorui (Xiaorui Mao). Around 2009 he was working on his debut…
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