Overview
- The feature rolls out in select theaters starting December 12, with some venues listing December 15 openings including Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox.
- Premiering in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the film has drawn strong acclaim for ambition and craft.
- Structured as a multipart survey of cinematic forms and dreaming, it features a much-discussed 30-minute single take set on New Year’s Eve 1999.
- Jackson Yee and Shu Qi lead the cast, with contributions from co-writer Zhai Xiaohui, cinematographer Dong Jinsong, and production designer Liu Qiang.
- Coverage pairs the release with Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a contrasting intimate two-hander starring Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw opening the same weekend.