1930s Shanghai. The past is like a fragment of a dream; a painter also uses their reveries to transcend barriers of time and space, approaching or entering dreams. A girl in a cheongsam appears and seem to float, like a dream; she leads the painter out into the morning sun of the old city...
A woman with ‘no name and no country’ in search of a sense of belonging. Asked to write a script about her own experience, she constructs an ‘autobiography’ which is partly fiction.
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When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanishes.
A gruesome look into the infamous and seemingly neverending 1991 Vizconde murder case in the Philippines where a woman, her teen daughter, and a 6-year-old were all viciously stabbed to death while the husband was away in America on business.
A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost impossible to return to reality.
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Have you watched Reverie on Old Shanghai yet? What did you think about it?