Réalisation:
Ann HuiScénario:
John Chan Kin-chungPhotographie:
Nelson Yu Lik-waiActeurs·trices:
Kang-Sheng Lee, Anthony Wong, Lawrence Lau, Ann Hui, Nina Paw, Rachel Lee, Gardner Tse, Mo-chun Chik, Curry Lau, Ally Wong, Thomas Hudak, Hei CheungRésumés(1)
Ann Hui responded to both the tenth anniversary of June 4th 1989 and the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 with this ambitious 1999 film. Employing impressive structural and thematic density, Hui develops interlocking stories of various activists and HKers in the 1980s. Superb local actors Anthony Wong, Rachel Lee, Lee Kang-sheng and Tse Kwan-ho play a Marxist priest, social workers/activists and a calculating politician. Augustine Mok is the Trotskyite actor whose Temple Street agitprop performance frames the personal dramas. Hui knows how to build subdued melodrama, and also how to pause her storytelling to capture (in Yu Lik-wai's electrically luminous photography) the texture of everyday altruism and idealistic action that can improve the lives of a great city's underclass. The film's shattering end, commemorating the Tiananmen movement, asks whether the hybrid modern Chinese-style society that HKers have created can really sustain a better, more just, freer way of life. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Kang-Sheng Lee
Taïwan
Meilleurs films :
Vive l'amour (1994)
The Hole (1998)
Les Rebelles du dieu neon (1992)
Anthony Wong
Hong Kong
Meilleurs films :
À toute épreuve (1992)
Infernal affairs (2002)
Wu di xing yun xing (1990)
Lawrence Lau
Afrique du Sud
Meilleurs films :
Une vie simple (2011)
Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)
A Jin de gu shi (1996)
Ann Hui
Chine
Meilleurs films :
La Rivière (1997)
Echoes of the Rainbow (2010)
Le Gagnant (1983)
Nina Paw
Hong Kong
Meilleurs films :
Wang bu liao (2003)
Le Maître d'armes (2006)
Une balle dans la tête (1990)
Rachel Lee
Chine
Meilleurs films :
Shang Hai yi jiu er ling (1991)
Di Xia Bing Gong Chang (1991)
Street Gun (1996)
Gardner Tse
Chine
Meilleurs films :
Yue guang bao he (2010)
Shock Wave 2 (2020)
Ming ri zhan ji (2022)
Mo-chun Chik
Meilleurs films :
New police story (2004)
Xun yi cao (2000)
Une nuit à Mongkok (2004)
Curry Lau
Meilleurs films :
The Victim (1980)
Xing mu zi gu huo zhao (1979)
Une flic de choc (1986)
Ally Wong
Hong Kong
Thomas Hudak
Meilleurs films :
A man called hero (1999)
Piège à Hong Kong (1998)
Hei Cheung
Meilleurs films :
The Victim (1980)
Tang ren jie xiao zi (1977)
Wu ming xiao cu (1979)