The Berlin Film Festival is once again finding house room for Hong Kong’s most commercially successful enfant terrible, Soi Cheang, aka Cheang Pou Soi, who previously brought film noir “Limbo” to t…
, a veteran of Milky Way Image and To’s cluster of regular partners, and who here is credited as producer and screenwriter.
“I had come up with the idea for this film back in 2008. I wanted to do a film about a murderer and the law of coincidences that lead to a murder. I looked different setups, but Milky Way has already done many crime films like that, touching on faith and coincidences.
“The story is from Nai Hoi, my take on this is that [while] we can’t change fate – fate has already set its path – what we can change is how we face up to fate. What attitude we take.”“Cheang is a key figure among Hong Kong’s post-1997 generation of filmmakers and notable for his somber but unmistakably personal visual style,” said Albert Lee, director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which this year will program a ten-film tribute to the director.
That may come in handy as Hong Kong authorities put more restrictions around the city’s once freewheeling film industry. “I’m not gonna lie that there are certainly going to be restrictions, but I think Hong Kong people are very smart. They will find new ways to say what they want to say. That’s the thing about creativity. We’ve always had restrictions or boundaries. But I think perhaps that these can lead us to create some really great things,” said Cheang.
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