Plot
"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.
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Cast
Longqi Li
Jun Peng
Li Huang
Yuzhou's Mother
Ziyan Liu
Yuzhou Chen
Qing Xie
Xiaohui Peng
Ting Wang
Ting Wang
Hanying Wang
Yuzhou's Grandmother