Films seen in the Hong Kong Film Festival 2012 in Thailand
1.NIGHT AND FOG (2010, Ann Hui, A+30)
2.ACCIDENT (2009, Soi Cheang, A+30)
3.SOUNDLESS WIND CHIME (2009, Kit Hung, A+5)
4.LOVER'S DISCOURSE (2010, Derek Tsang + Jimmy Wan, A+)
5.QUATTRO HONG KONG (2011, A+)
--M HOTEL (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, A+15)
--FRIED GLUTINOUS RICE (Herman Yau, A+)
--WE MIGHT AS WELL BE STRANGERS (Heiward Mak, A+)
--THE YELLOW SLIPPER (Fruit Chan, A+)
--OPEN VERDICT (Ho Yuhang, A+)
--PURPLE (Brillante Mendoza, B+/B)
6.BREAK UP CLUB (2010, Barbara Wong Chun-chun, A+)
7.THE BEAST STALKER (2008, Dante Lam, A+)
8.ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW (2010, Alex Law, A+)
The guy in the photo is Eddie Peng, who stars in LOVER'S DISCOURSE, though the photo does not come from the film.
2 comments:
I think I have watched too many Hong Kong thriller films, because sometimes I can't remember any more which mafia/cop stories belong to which film titles. But ACCIDENT is a Hong Kong thriller film which really stands out. Its plot and story are very easy for me to remember.
NIGHT AND FOG is very intense. One of the things I like very much is the fact that the film tells us at the very beginning how the film is gonna end. The film doesn't have to rely on suspense, but it is extremely gripping nonetheless. The audience knows in the first scene who is going to live and who is going to die, so the main point of the film is not about what will happen next, but about how things like this can happen.
The fact that NIGHT AND FOG tells us the doomed fate of the characters in the first scene reminds me of such films as CRY IN SILENCE (2006, J.G. Biggs) and THE DEAD GIRL (2006, Karen Moncrieff).
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