Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late

May. 08,2024

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary Mystery

Keywords：

Anthropology Ethnography Visual Anthropology

Trailer Synopsis Cast

"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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