✅ The history of one hundred years of filmmaking and the history of making the film is the film.
✅ Add to that the human senses as a history of cinematic aesthetics.
✅ Staged as the tension between living forever by giving up dreaming or by transforming dreams into art.
Masterpiece reminiscent of Coover’s Pinocchio in Venice, where, similarly, the protagonist at the end turns into the literal medium they’ve been narrated in.
Wild Times by Bi Gan, 2025.
Watched at the Metropol theater on July 5, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.