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 Michael Coghlan | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[CHINA] Mercury Cinema, Tue 29 Sep This fascinating documentary with a strong narrative has many of the hallmarks of a feature film. A Young Patriot chronicles three years out of the life of Zhao, a 19-year-old patriot from Xiangsi Province who was discovered by...
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...
by Clayton Werner | Sep 30, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[JAPAN] Mercury Cinema, Fri 25 Sep All the way from 1960, Akira Kurusawa’s classic black-and-white film is a strong piece of social, cultural and corporate criticism. I found myself comparing it to Orwell’s 1984, though the strong passion and melodrama being...
