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The title refers to a pond in Wuhan, China that local anglers frequent, but where they can’t catch any fish. The film depicts several individuals’ strange behaviors in public spaces and their internal struggles.
Air Base
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A city symphony of people slowly readjusting their social lives after the temporal abstraction of the lockdown, like a broom trapped on an escalator or a bear running in circles. Li's beautiful compositions and patient tautological approach slowly expand this urban portrait with some unusual ideas and a very unique administration of tone.
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While director Luo Li is interested enough in these people’s conversations to allow them to play out in full, most of Air Base’s runtime consists of shots of Wuhan’s streets, the shopping centers, the vaguely European part of town, the small bridges that light up from multicolor LEDs at night, the Air Base pond, and the light reflecting from the pond in the trees. It’s never quite busy, but it’s a city busy enough to encourage strange interactions, which lighten the mood in between the more serious conversations. In fact, plenty of moments play out like a lighter version of How to with John Wilson — one of the anglers sits beside the road and lights up an entire box…
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un des plus beau film que j’ai vu de ma vie, il me pousse à faire ma première review…
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