Directed by Soi Cheang, Mad Fate has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2023 in the latest Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, with Wu Kang-ren and Jennifer Yu winning acting prizes.
OPENING All of Us Strangers (R) Based on Taichi Yamada’s novel, Andrew Haigh’s science-fiction romance is about a gay Englishman (Andrew Scott) who mysteriously meets his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy), who died when he was a child. Also with Paul Mescal. (Opens Friday in Dallas) The Beekeeper (R) As
Andy Lau’s drug lord in crime thriller I Did It My Way comes off as unreasonable to the point of being comic, and confusing writing and a superficial depiction of Asia’s dark web only add to the farce.
Hong Kong’s First Feature Film Initiative was founded in 2013 to spot new directing talent and help fund their first features. We look at the performance of the 13 films funded in the FFFI’s first 10 years.