Screening: Made in Hong Kong

The first independent Hong Kong film made after the 1997 British handover to China, this “intoxicating drama about teenage alienation” (Tom Dawson, BBC) depicts a rarely seen view of the city.

Made in Hong Kong Film Festival Closing Weekend: Post-1997 Classics
On the final weekend of the festival, three classic films reveal how Hong Kong movies changed after the 1997 handover from Great Britain to China.

This event is held at National Museum of American History, Warner Bros. Theater

Watch the trailer.

The first independent Hong Kong film made after the 1997 British handover to China, this “intoxicating drama about teenage alienation” (Tom Dawson, BBC) depicts a rarely seen view of the city. Far from the skyscrapers and expensive suits that populate most Hong Kong crime films, it depicts high school dropout Autumn Moon, who lives in a tenement with his single mother and collects debts for a low-level gangster. He falls for the daughter of one of his victims, and he gets even deeper into the crime world to raise money to treat her kidney disease. A digital restoration created by the Udine Far East Film Festival in honor of the film’s twentieth anniversary makes a fitting finale to this year’s festival. (Dir.: Fruit Chan, Hong Kong, 1997, 109 min., DCP, Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles)

Part of the series Twenty-Second Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival