An Unfinished Film

Name: An Unfinished Film
Genre: Drama
Released: February 14, 2025
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 78

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Film Movement | Release Date: February 14, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: In January 2020, director 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 inIn January 2020, director 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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100

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Feb 14, 2025

Out of agony and chaos, Chinese film-maker Lou Ye has created something mysterious, moving and even profound – a kind of multilayered docu-realist film, evidently inspired by a real-life situation in film production. Read full review

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Siddhant Adlakha

Feb 14, 2025

By entwining reality with dramatization to such an inseparable degree, An Unfinished Film runs the emotional gamut, with a pulsing naturalism that few films about the recent pandemic (or any real disasters) have ever managed to achieve. Read full review

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Bobby LePire

Mar 12, 2025

It’s gripping, reflective, dramatic, and even a bit humorous. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Mar 13, 2025

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. Read full review

Chase Hutchinson

Feb 14, 2025

It isn’t always a pretty picture, but it is a truthful one, proving to be a loving tribute to those lost. Read full review

Richard Brody

Mar 13, 2025

Lou breaks apart the veneer of narrative perfection, in order to show where the power lies. Read full review

The Film Verdict Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

Feb 14, 2025

The lockdown across cities the world over was quite the inescapable slog; there’s no good reason for a film to replicate its worst feature. Read full review

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