Merry-Go-Round

  • 124'
  • Hong Kong
  • 2010
Four protagonists, two generations and two continents are interwoven in Merry-Go-Round, a grand yet intimate narrative about leaving and returning. It starts in San Francisco, where Eva works as a traditional Chinese doctor, and young, roaming Merry hears that she has leukaemia. Both return to Hong Kong: Merry looks up Allen, with whom she had previously corresponded, and gets a job in the Tung-Wah guardhouse for coffins run by the grumpy Hill. Eva tries to prevent the same Allen, her cousin, from selling the family business. In the meantime, the older woman thinks back to an affair she had in the 1930s.
Directors Mak Yan Yan and Clement Cheng cleverly bring together the various storylines in their beautifully illuminated film, supported by a soundtrack by Hong-Kong folk pop band Ketchup.
  • 124'
  • Hong Kong
  • 2010
Directors
Mak Yan Yan, Clement Cheng
Premiere
European première
Country of production
Hong Kong
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
124'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Dong feng po
Language
Cantonese
Producer
Mak Yan Yan
Production Company
Dragonfly J Co. Ltd
Sales
Dragonfly J Co. Ltd
Screenplay
Clement Cheng, Mak Yan Yan
Cinematography
Jason Kwan
Editor
Stanley Tam, Mak Yan Yan, Terence Yung
Production Design
Mak Yan Yan
Sound Design
Cinidigit
Music
Ketchup, Harris Ho, Yu Yet-yiu
Cast
Teddy Robin, Nora Miao
Directors
Mak Yan Yan, Clement Cheng
Premiere
European première
Country of production
Hong Kong
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
124'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Dong feng po
Language
Cantonese
Producer
Mak Yan Yan
Production Company
Dragonfly J Co. Ltd
Sales
Dragonfly J Co. Ltd
Screenplay
Clement Cheng, Mak Yan Yan
Cinematography
Jason Kwan
Editor
Stanley Tam, Mak Yan Yan, Terence Yung
Production Design
Mak Yan Yan
Sound Design
Cinidigit
Music
Ketchup, Harris Ho, Yu Yet-yiu
Cast
Teddy Robin, Nora Miao