More from Clarence Tsui
‘Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains’ (‘Chun Jiang Shui Nuan’): Film Review | Cannes 2019
First-time filmmaker Gu Xiaogang's two-hour-plus 'Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains' tracks a provincial family's transformation across four seasons.
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‘The Halt’ (‘Ang Hupa’): Film Review
Bowing at the Directors' Fortnight sidebar in Cannes, Philippine auteur Lav Diaz's four-hour-plus 'The Halt' is set in a dark, despot-driven world in 2034.
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‘To Live to Sing’ (‘Huo Zhe Chang Zhe’): Film Review | Cannes 2019
The second film of China-born Canadian filmmaker Johnny Ma, 'To Live to Sing' deals with a Sichuan Opera troupe and its manager's struggle when her theater is threatened with demolition.
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‘Blue Hour’ (‘Buru Awa ni Buttobasu’): Film Review | Filmart 2019
Kaho and Shim Eun-kyung star as two friends visiting a provincial city in 'Blue Hour,' Japanese filmmaker Yuko Hakota's first full-length feature.
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‘Territory of Love’ (‘L’Autre Continent’): Film Review | Filmart 2019
Deborah Francois and Paul Hamy star in 'Territory of Love,' Romain Cogitore's Franco-Taiwanese romantic drama.
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‘The Torment of Ghost’: Film Review | Filmart 2019
Huy Yaleng's 'The Torment of Ghost' charts a criminal tycoon's downfall as he struggles with nightmares in which he is tortured by a former Khmer Rouge cadre.
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‘Orphans’ Blues’: Film Review | Filmart 2019
Japanese filmmaker Riho Kudo's 'Orphans' Blues,' about a young amnesiac's attempt to find an estranged childhood friend, won the Grand Prize of the indie-oriented Pia Film Festival in Tokyo in the fall.
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‘My Little One’: Film Review | Filmart 2019
A Swiss-funded road movie about two men who travel into the Navajo lands in Arizona to understand the life of the women they both loved.
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‘Winter After Winter’ (‘Dong Qu Dong You Lai’): Film Review | Filmart 2019
First-time filmmaker Xing Jian's black-and-white 'Winter After Winter,' about a rural Chinese family's struggle to survive and continue their lineage during the second world war, receives its Asian premiere in Hong Kong after bowing in Rotterdam.
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‘Chinese Portrait’ (‘Wo De Jing Tou’): Film Review | Filmart 2019
Wang Xiaoshuai's 'Chinese Portrait' reconstructs his and his country's past through images of cities, factories and trains filmed throughout the past decade.
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‘Nakorn-Sawan’: Film Review | Filmart 2019
Thai filmmaker Puangsoi Aksornsawang's 'Nakorn-Sawan,' a docu-drama hybrid revolving around her late mother, bows in Hong Kong after screenings in Busan and Berlin.
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‘Vanishing Days’ (‘Man You’): Film Review | Berlin 2019
Twenty-two-year-old helmer Zhu Xin's 'Vanishing Days,' about a teenager's surreal experiences during one summer in the picturesque city of Hangzhou, bowed at Berlin's Forum program.
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