Air Base — Li Luo [Cinéma du Réel '25 Review]

Air Base — Li Luo [Cinéma du Réel '25 Review]

Though plenty of movies have been made either focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic in a literal way, and even more movies had been converted into limited cast chamber dramas as a result of it (say, KIMI [2022] or A Knock at the Cabin [2023]), very few films understood the strange immediate aftermath of the lockdowns to be an interesting subject itself. And, where most of the United States felt this reintegration process (returning to work, vague ma…