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  • 2020
  • HighballTV
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2020
  • HighballTV
  • 1 h 26 m
Our Time Machine

Summary When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date - a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets...

Directed By: S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun

Written By: Bo Li, S. Leo Chiang

  • 2020
  • HighballTV
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2020
  • HighballTV
  • 1 h 26 m

Our Time Machine

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date - a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets...

Directed By: S. Leo Chiang, Yang Sun

Written By: Bo Li, S. Leo Chiang

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100
Sep 10, 2020
Our Time Machine is very carefully balanced between the personal and the professional. An elegant, focused piece of storytelling finds the space to explore the family history revealing the way in which these lives are inextricably linked with the history of China itself.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 10, 2020
Sun and Chiang strike a tricky balance between a high-stakes making-of documentary and an intimate, observational family portrait, but Maleonn is such a thoughtful, sensitive, brilliant subject that the film is compelling no matter where on the creative spectrum they find him.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 10, 2020
Our Time Machine might deploy too many endings, but each epilogue feels precious as if it is snatching as much time as it could with its subjects.
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88
Sep 10, 2020
The documentary displays such winsome artistry that you also leave feeling energized. It’s an invigorating act of creative defiance in the face of Alzheimer’s disease.
By Josh Larsen FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 10, 2020
The technical and logistical details of the project are constantly fascinating, but it’s these emotional moments that pack most of the film’s power.
By Justin Lowe FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 11, 2020
Our Time Machine leaves you wanting a whole lot more, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
By Matt Fagerholm FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 10, 2020
Maleonn somehow finds an anchor of optimism amidst the situation, despite his father’s steady memory decline. That, too, is part of this film’s gift.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Sep 11, 2020
Duration 1 h 26 m
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Website http://sleochiang.com/films/ma-liangs-time-machine/
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations
VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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