Our Time Machine

[Opens Sept. 11 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] When creative, talented, contemporary, 43-year-old Chinese artist Ma Liang (aka Maleonn) realizes that his proud Alzheimer's-afflicted father Ma Ke, who directed more than eighty Peking operas in Shanghai, is gradually slipping away from reality in this touching, inspirational, poignant, thought-provoking, imaginative, arty, autobiographical, 86-minute, 2019 documentary highlighted by wonderful, intricate artwork and puppets and amazing cinematography, he decides to write and direct a deeply moving play and meticulously to build magical, mechanical, life-size puppets in a visually-striking, memorable production called Papa's Time Machine in an attempt to collaborate with his father to trigger and save precious memories.
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