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Hong Kong Film Festival: "The Midnight After"

Celebrate twenty years of Hong Kong movies at the Freer|Sackler with screenings and special events, including guest appearances, new hit films, and rare classics. Cosponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.

When:
July 31, 2015 7:00pm to 9:00pm
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Named both Best Film and Best Director by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, Fruit Chan’s science-fiction comedy follows a group of Hong Kong denizens on a late-night trip. When they emerge from their minibus, the travelers discover they are the only people left in the city—the first of many disturbing realizations.
 
Featuring a great cast that includes Simon Yam, Kara Hui, and rocker Jan Curious (who at one point launches into an appropriately goofy version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”), “Midnight is an intensely local but exhilarating comedy-horror that shows Chan firing on all pistons with his indie energy of old” (Derek Elley, Film Business Asia). (Dir.: Fruit Chan, Hong Kong, 2014, 124 min., DCP, Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles)
 
Cost: 
Free
Phone Number: 
202-633-1000