After a year that’s been marked by the collective anger of the global populace facing disease and inequality, Lost Course feels particularly necessary. It’s a story that will haunt you with the question: is change possible?
Lost Course(迷航)
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Hong Kong · 2019
2h 59m
Director Jill Li
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Lost Course chronicles a grassroots democratic movement in the southern Chinese village of Wukan. The villagers protest against the corrupt local officials before ousting them and organising elections of their own. However, after taking control of their destiny, the villagers find themselves beset by the same corruption and cynicism endemic. Following three main characters, Li reveals the complexities of their struggles, triumphs and setbacks from the inside.
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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
[A] sobering, sprawling documentary.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Three hours long yet anything but leisurely, the doc is charged with energy, anger and disappointment.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
This two-part, three-hour film is marked by immediacy and breadth, as if an on-the-fly news bulletin had naturally morphed into the richest of character-driven sagas.
Observational yet authoritative in its approach, Li’s film first paints an inspiring picture, then a dispiriting one.
Slant Magazine by William Repass
What distinguishes the film from ordinary journalism, and what constitutes its intervention in reality, is a difference in timescale.
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