An Unfinished Film

"Moving and mysterious (...) Lou Ye’s docu-realist film starts as sophisticated comedy, morphs from looking like a zombie apocalypse to intimate drama, and evolves into a tribute to how a nation handled trauma (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"[It] is an impressive, impressionistic attempt to capture the strangeness of those early days from a Chinese perspective (...) An absorbing portrait of an unfinished era" 

"A haunting but ultimately life-affirming chronicle of the early days of lockdown." 

"Director Lou Ye delivers both a powerful rebuke against excessive state intervention into private lives, and a celebratory ode to the resilience of the masses (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"