Lost Course

After a year that’s been marked by the collective anger of the global populace facing disease and inequality, Lost Course feels particularly necessary. It’s a story that will haunt you with the question: is change possible?

What distinguishes the film from ordinary journalism, and what constitutes its intervention in reality, is a difference in timescale.

This two-part, three-hour film is marked by immediacy and breadth, as if an on-the-fly news bulletin had naturally morphed into the richest of character-driven sagas.

[A] sobering, sprawling documentary.

Observational yet authoritative in its approach, Li’s film first paints an inspiring picture, then a dispiriting one.

Three hours long yet anything but leisurely, the doc is charged with energy, anger and disappointment.