Do Over

Immediately thrusting its audience into a film within a film, Cheng Yu-Chieh's debut feature blurs the lines between fantasy and reality, drawing connections between the past, present and future. Set in a hip, ultra-modern Taipei milieu, Cheng's film benefits strongly from the work of cinematographer Jake Pollock, who enables the director to leap from light to dark and from surreal to real, creating a world rich in visual styles and possibilities. (Jonathan L. Knapp)