Merry-Go-Round
Dong feng po
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 124'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
