AMOSTRAS DE CINEMA CHINÊS
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1. Isabella, de Edmond Pang
Edmond Pang Ho Cheung is one of the new generation of directors emerging in Hong Kong, renowned for his witty and entertaining works which all met with critical acclaim. His latest Isabella entered the 56th Berlin International Film Festival as the only Chinese-language film. The film also won the Best Film Award at the Orient Express Competitive Section of Oporto International Film Festival in Portugal in March 2007, and Isabella Leong was crowned Best Actress at the Director's Week of the same event. Thanks to Peter Kam's music which enriches the film's nostalgic and exotic mood, Isabella successfully captured the Silver Berlin Bear for the Best Film Music in February, 2006. Stylized camera angles and sentimental music in Isabella reminds us of Wong Kar Wai's movies, but like other Pang Ho Cheung movies, Isabella also offers an end twist and a subtle connection to larger social or historical issues.
Chapman To (Initial D) and Isabella Leong (Bug Me Not) play father and daughter in the film, and they deliver an ambiguous and sophisticated relationship that is most intriguing. The story is set in Macau on the eve of handover when Macau people are expecting a new era to come. Policeman Shing (Chapman To) also turns a new page in life when he meets the 17-year-old girl Yan (Isabella Leong), who claims to be his daughter.
He tries to redeem his sins against Yan's deceased mother (JJ Jia) through Yan, whereas Yan attempts to re-live her mother's life vicariously, through a new connection with her long-lost "father". The dilemma between past and present subtly echoes with other elements in Isabella. When Macau is looking forward to start anew after a century's Portuguese colonization, viewers will enjoy in Isabella a labyrinth-like Macau that resembles a southern Europe town, abundant in her former sovereign Portugal.
1. Isabella, de Edmond Pang
Edmond Pang Ho Cheung is one of the new generation of directors emerging in Hong Kong, renowned for his witty and entertaining works which all met with critical acclaim. His latest Isabella entered the 56th Berlin International Film Festival as the only Chinese-language film. The film also won the Best Film Award at the Orient Express Competitive Section of Oporto International Film Festival in Portugal in March 2007, and Isabella Leong was crowned Best Actress at the Director's Week of the same event. Thanks to Peter Kam's music which enriches the film's nostalgic and exotic mood, Isabella successfully captured the Silver Berlin Bear for the Best Film Music in February, 2006. Stylized camera angles and sentimental music in Isabella reminds us of Wong Kar Wai's movies, but like other Pang Ho Cheung movies, Isabella also offers an end twist and a subtle connection to larger social or historical issues.
Chapman To (Initial D) and Isabella Leong (Bug Me Not) play father and daughter in the film, and they deliver an ambiguous and sophisticated relationship that is most intriguing. The story is set in Macau on the eve of handover when Macau people are expecting a new era to come. Policeman Shing (Chapman To) also turns a new page in life when he meets the 17-year-old girl Yan (Isabella Leong), who claims to be his daughter.
He tries to redeem his sins against Yan's deceased mother (JJ Jia) through Yan, whereas Yan attempts to re-live her mother's life vicariously, through a new connection with her long-lost "father". The dilemma between past and present subtly echoes with other elements in Isabella. When Macau is looking forward to start anew after a century's Portuguese colonization, viewers will enjoy in Isabella a labyrinth-like Macau that resembles a southern Europe town, abundant in her former sovereign Portugal.
2. The Knot (云水谣, Yún shuǐ yáo), de Li Yin
They fell in love. Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled to Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wan Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Jindi followed Qiushui to Tibet and was killed in an avalanche. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. And now... Biyun is living in Los Angeles. Her niece has traveled to Tibet to retrace Qiushui's footsteps. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun can see Qiushui's final resting place...
4 comentários:
Isabel! diz-me de que filme é a musica do 2º trailer? ñ me consigo lembrar =P parecem ser bonito o filme =)
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Esta música maravilhosa é de um filme maravilhoso... "O Carteiro de Pablo Neruda"! Quanto ao chinês "The Knot", para dizer a verdade é uma lamechice pegada, que vale a pena pela beleza da fotografia, da retratação de Taiwan nos anos 40, pelo valor histórico. Foi a HLL que mo emprestou, podes arranjar... e temos de retomar as nossas sessões caseiras à sexta-feira! Tenho saudades disso :)
é isso!!!! =D a minha memoria ja deve ter mais 50 anos do que eu =P ñ trabalha =P
e sim! temos sim sra! ha filmes a por em dia ;)
gosto de poemas de Pablo Neruda. O "knot" é uma réplica da minha memória amorosa enquanto muito jovem. HLL
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