Plot: After 10 years, a film crew reassembles and reconnects their old computer. On it, they discover the files of a film they had wanted to make a decade earlier. Spirits are high, and they are excited to finish their project, but then COVID hits, and suddenly they all find themselves confined to their rooms.
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July 11, 2025
Not the most exciting Ye Lou film, but the fact that it's about cinema probably added to its popularity. The film is a collage of mockumentary ideas that mix real footage from Lou's earlier work with reenactments of things that happened when Lou was trying to finish his own film.
But the result is somewhat plain. The premise is nice enough, but the characters are lifeless, the presentation is anything but remarkable, and the COVID scenes aren't paced well. I'm probably being a bit too negative. The film wasn't bad, and it kept my attention rather easily, but Lou is capable of so much more. Some interesting tidbits here, but it's far from his best work.