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Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late

  • May 2024
  • 2hrs

    16mins

  • Mystery
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Shuai Li,

    Starring

    Longqi Li,

    Li Huang,

    Ziyan Liu,

    Qing Xie

    ...

    "Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the aftermath of the pandemic. Filmed in Wuhan, the film follows the everyday lives of three middle-class households. It postulates the existence of a mass dreaming phenomenon that facilitated fatigued Chinese inhabitants to rejuvenate themselves following the secluded episode of lived experience and to coexist with the enduring imprints of "the event" on their social lives.