Regie:
Soi Cheang Pou-soiActeurs:
Gordon Lam, Berg Ng, Lok-Man Yeung, Wing-Sze Ng, Peter Chan, Bonnie Man-Wai Wong, Tin-Lung Ko, Pancy Chan, Yee-Man Yuen, Brenda Chan Kwai-fan (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
The sky above Hong Kong is not just heavy with clouds and rain, it also contains astral signs and dark omens in this esoteric neo-noir. In a radical and counter-intuitive move, rather than having the characters’ trajectories converge towards the end, the plot instead knits their fates together from the start. Crossing paths at the scene of a heinous crime in a brothel are the serial killer perpetrator and the upstanding detective chasing him, but also a delivery boy obsessed with blood and knives and an occultist feng shui master who had predicted the victim’s gory fate without being able to prevent it. The last two quickly form an unlikely pair, and this transforms the film into a surreal, hyperkinetic, expressionist buddy thriller. The horoscopes confirm that the boy will soon succumb to his bloodthirsty temptations, but to redeem past failures and save him from his fate, the fortune teller is willing to do anything. As the investigations gather pace, the pair sinks into delirium in a whirlwind of superstitions, rituals and distortions, against a backdrop of an alchemical metropolis. (Berlinale)
(meer)Acteurs
Gordon Lam
Hongkong
Beste films:
Ye Wen (2008)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
A Simple Life (2011)
Berg Ng
Hongkong
Beste films:
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Eye in the Sky (2007)
2046 (2004)
Lok-Man Yeung
Hongkong
Wing-Sze Ng
Hongkong
Beste films:
Chai dan zhuan jia 2 (2020)
Peter Chan
Hongkong
Bonnie Man-Wai Wong
Hongkong
Beste films:
Wo zuo yan jian dao gui (2002)
Kong bu ji (1997)
Man tam (2013)
Tin-Lung Ko
Hongkong
Beste films:
Da shi xiong (2018)
Pancy Chan
Hongkong
Beste films:
San ren xing (2016)
Shi mian (2017)
Yee-Man Yuen
Beste films:
Nan er ben se (2007)
Sao tu (2013)
Duo ming jin (2011)
Brenda Chan Kwai-fan
Beste films:
New Police Story (2004)
A Simple Life (2011)
Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai (2006)
Mike Long-ching Ip
Beste films:
Čchaj tan čuan ťia (2017)
Wu šuang (2018)
Anthony Chan
Beste films:
Nou fo (2021)
Chai dan zhuan jia 2 (2020)
Johnson Lo
Beste films:
Chai dan zhuan jia 2 (2020)