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‘Luz’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Leads Alluring, if Cold Chinese Diptych About Virtual Reality and Real-Life Woes
Isabelle Huppert leads Flora Lau's 'Luz,' about a group of Chinese loners finding connections inside a virtual reality video game.
But she is only one of the four pieces that conform “ Luz,” Flora Lau ’s alluring narrative diptych on familial disconnection that moves between the French capital, the Chinese city of Chongqing and an interstitial realm of virtual reality, where her characters are meant to find common ground. From the opening credits (the names of those involved appear as spinning neon signs floating) propelled by Mimi Xu’s propulsive score, Lau announces the visual originality she’s after, mining Chongqing’s fluorescent architecture to create dazzling, otherworldly frames. When not working as a henchman for a crime boss, Wei (Xiaodong Guo) spends hours (and lots of cash) watching his long-estranged daughter Fa (Enxi Deng) on a live stream channel, never showing his face to reveal his relationship to her.
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