by Michael Coghlan | Feb 16, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre – Studio, Mon 15 Feb The Immigration Lottery is a brief and powerful statement about what it’s like to live in Hong Kong right now. Its citizens worry about restrictions on their basic freedoms as they move further under the umbrella of...
by Nikki Fort | Oct 4, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Sat 3 Oct Made in 1991, this film is very clunky and predictable. Sadly, the subtitle translations were so bad that it was often hard to know what they meant. At times, viewers were talking aloud in the cinema trying to understand the...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 3, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Thu 1 Oct This is a frustrating story of true love thwarted by meddling extended family members. Directed by Hong Kong’s Ann Hui, it is set in Shanghai in the 1930s and shows a society obsessed with family and having children and where the...
by Nikki Fort | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Tue 29 Sep This powerful and important film was made in 1982 but it remains just as controversial, disturbing and pertinent today. In post-war Vietnam, (circa 1976) Japanese photojournalist Shiomi Akutagawa, beautifully played by George...
by Nikki Fort | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Mon 28 Sep Highly acclaimed film director Ann Hui is the first female to win the Asian Film Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honour, and was named Asian Filmmaker Of The Year at Busan International Film Festival in 2014. Her Career...
