Unmade in China follows American director Gil Kofman as he travels to Xiamen, China to direct a Chinese thriller. Once there he discovers that the old adage of making a film three times, once in the writing, once in the shooting and once in the editing, is in fact just the opposite in his host country, where his film is unmade three times. Undaunted by his inability to speak or understand the Mandarin language, Kofman directs his frequently recast actors through a translator ... (Full plot summary below)
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Unmade in China follows American director Gil Kofman as he travels to Xiamen, China to direct a Chinese thriller. Once there he discovers that the old adage of making a film three times, once in the writing, once in the shooting and once in the editing, is in fact just the opposite in his host country, where his film is unmade three times. Undaunted by his inability to speak or understand the Mandarin language, Kofman directs his frequently recast actors through a translator as government censorship and constant cultural mishaps hijack his script and derail production. Like Man of la Mancha set in Communist China, there has never been a film quite like this.
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| Film School RejectsChristopher CampbellUltimately some fresh and amusing points are made regarding the issues of final cut privilege and film piracy ... if only it were as wholly engaging as its content deserves. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineUgly Americans and not so pretty Chinese dominate this cheesy doc about a cheesy group of L.A. filmmakers trying to make a cheesy film in China with Chinese backing. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeHome-movie-like document of a disastrous film production offers a few laughs. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeMostly, it's just a sloppy account of a doomed-to-fail endeavor in which Kaufman retroactively feigns naivete about an assignment with too many obvious red flags. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferFun and amusing albeit a little too much navel-gazing and low on insight. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Unmade in China" is an entertaining personalized account of a director's hardships attempting to work in China's determinedly hostile filmmaking conditions. |
| AV ClubTasha RobinsonAs Unmade In China gets more personal and less professional, it stops being a primer on filmmaking in a foreign environment with unfamiliar challenges, and becomes an onsite mouthpiece for a pouting, passive-aggressive filmmaker who desperately needs an outlet. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIt's a cautionary tale of sorts, but the story is so strange it is often not clear exactly what it's cautioning us against. |
| Village VoiceAndrew SchenkerAll of this could be very funny, but while the film does deliver some strong comic turns, far too much time is spent watching an inactive Kofman whining about his lot. |
| New York TimesNicolas RapoldSlack storytelling (including snippets from a post-film Q. and A. session) and patchy filmmaking seal the unappealing deal. |
