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Friday, Nov. 14, 9:30 p.m., Hi-Pointe Theatre
Directed by Johnny To, Hong Kong, 2002, 85 min.
Wicked humor fuels the propulsive energy of this full throttle thriller that takes us to the dark netherworlds of a derelict harbor area of Hong Kong. The title refers to the specially trained Police Tactical Unit, one of several law enforcement groups assigned to control the gang
members, criminals and thugs that populate this crime-ridden part of the city. A rough and slightly corrupted detective loses his handgun after being mugged and is desperate to get it back before his superiors find out. This loss is the catalyst for an explosive series of interconnected events involving the regular police, the PTU and the white-collar Criminal Investigation department. Ethical codes of honor come into question for the crooks and cops alike as they race towards the virtuoso final act. A refined mixture of playfulness and much darker themes pervade the noirish labyrinth of the plot of this high octane drama.
Director To will attend.
This film is sponsored by the Visiting East Asian Professionals program of Washington University.
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Chinese Odyssey 2002 (Tian xia wu
shuang)
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m., HiPointe
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 9:30 p.m., HiPointe
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Directed by Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong, 2002, 105 min.
In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born, the young Emperor and his sister, confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress. The other pair is decidedly lowborn, a wanderer and his sister who runs a restaurant. After they meet numerous complications and misunderstandings ensue: genders and roles are reversed, class differences prove hard to negotiate, and identities and egos block the promptings of desire.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Saturday, Nov. 22, 4:30 p.m., HP
Sunday, Nov 23, 3:30 p.m., HP
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China/France, 2002, 110 min.
Director: Sijie Dai
Producer: Lise Fayolle
Screenwriter: Sijie Dai, Nadine Perront, based on Dai's autobiographical
novel
Main Cast: Ziiou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Shuangbao, Chung Zhijun, Wang
Hongwei
Language: Chinese
Based on a best-selling French novel written by the director, the film is a
visually lush vision of life in a remote Chinese mountain village in the
early 1970's. In the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two
university students wrongly deemed as reactionary intellectuals are sent to
the village as part of their reeducation duty to the state.
Their cruel sentence to haul human waste for fertilizer is designed to purge them of
their classical, western-oriented education. Always on the lookout for any
deviation from Maoist doctrine, the village chief keeps a stern and watchful
eye on the two students. When the boys discover a hidden cache of forbidden
books, they read exotic stories to the beautiful granddaughter of the local
tailor in order to woo her. The power of literature unlocks and awakens in
each of them the ability to change their own world in truly
revolutionary ways.
This film is an Interfaith Award competition feature finalist.
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