Three Hong Kong films were selected for this year's Venice Film Festival. Teh 67th edition will welcome The Child's Eye, Red Earth and the most buzzed film which is also bound for Tiff in Legend of the Fist: the Return of Chen Zhen. Red Earth, a short film directed by Clara Law (an Australian co-production), was previously selected for this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival as one of four films for "Quattro Hong Kong," a section of films produced by the festival society as a sort of tribute to the city of Hong Kong. Red Earth is about a management consultant played by Daniel Wu who goes to Hong Kong to meet a girl briefly encountered before, he checks in a hotel to wait for her to show him an unforgettable view of sunset that she promised him. But he can no longer remember her face and strange things...
- 8/17/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I'm adding the make-up of the Venice Film Festival Horizons sidebar selections a little late to the site, I'm mostly curious to see the low ratio of films that'll be picked up from this section for the upcoming Tiff announcements. Deemed as re-branding of the section, a more eclectic melange of titles mixing short, medium length pics, documentaries film and feature length items, of the items that will generate the most interest are the opening and closing titles which were revealed the week before, but we should see media coverage mentions on Paul Morrissey's News From Nowhere, Jose Luis Guerin's docu Guest (I've yet to see 2007/2008's In the City of Sylvia) and Sion Sono's Cold Fish and short film offerings from Guillermo Arriaga, Isaac Julien and Clara Law. Horizons: Feature-length Works "Sleeping Beauty," Catherine Breillat (France, opener) "Oki's Movie," Hong Sang-soo (South Korea, closer) "The Nine Muses,...
- 8/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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