Maggie Cheung
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Maggie Cheung at IFFR
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Heroic Trio
Johnnie To | 105' | Hong Kong | International premiere
Woman’s martial-arts film in which The Wonder Woman, The Invisible Woman and The Thief Catcher have to solve baby-snatches. -
The Bare-Footed Kid
Johnnie To | 90' | Hong Kong | None
Entertaining kung fu drama about an orphan with elegant martial arts techniques, but too few social graces. In a clumsy attempt to please his foster… -
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-wai | 90' | Hong Kong | -
There is no more elegant film. Hong Kong, in the 1960s: a man seeks contact with the woman next-door to join forces in confronting their… -
Clean
Olivier Assayas | 110' | Canada | -
Moving and convincing film about the young widow of a pop star, who fights for her child and against her addiction. A film that is… -
2046
Wong Kar-wai | 129' | Hong Kong | -
A writer (Tony Leung) is working on a book about a mysterious train that travels to the year 2046. He thinks he is making a… -
Ashes of Time Redux
Wong Kar-wai | 93' | Hong Kong | None
For Ashes of Time, Wong Kar-wai swapped the conventions of the wuxia genre for his beloved theme of love and loss. The film can also… -
Ruan lingyu
Stanley Kwan | 154' | Hong Kong | -
Collage of historically factual material, dramatised reconstruction and fiction about the life of Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935) played stu -
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas | 96' | France | -
Film-on-film vehicle for rubber-clad Maggie Cheung. She comes to Paris to play the lead in Louis Feuillade remake. -
Jidong qixia
Fok Yiu-Leung | 114' | Hong Kong | -
Fast, quick-witted action film brings rival warriors from the Ming Dynasty to present-day Hong Kong. -
Gungun Hongchen
Yim Ho | 94' | Hong Kong | -
Great film about the life story of Zhaohwa: locked up by her father as a girl; her husband collaborated with the Japanese.