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- Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (Chinese: 七人樂隊) is a 2020 Hong Kong anthology historical drama film directed by seven filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave: Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yuen Woo-ping, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To and Tsui Hark.
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Septet: The Story of Hong Kong ( Chinese: 七人樂隊) [1] is a 2020 Hong Kong anthology historical drama film directed by seven filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave: Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yuen Woo-ping, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To and Tsui Hark.
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Septet: The Story of Hong Kong is a 2020 Hong Kong anthology historical drama film directed by Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yuen Woo-ping, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To and Tsui Hark, seven filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave.
- Exercise
- Headmaster
- Tender Is The Night
- Homecoming
- Bonanza
- Astray
- Conversation in Depth
- Closing Thoughts
The anthology begins in the 1950s with Sammo Hung’s own coming of age in a performance troupe, names unchanged. In a further layer of meta, his son Timmy Hung plays his master (a role Sammo himself played in Painted Faces). As if hellbent on narcissism, Sammo breaks the fourth wall at the end and literally states his story’s moral to the camera. Bu...
Moving onto the 1960s is Ann Hui’s story of admiration between a teacher and a principal in a rooftop school, with striking coincidences to democracy leader Szeto Wah’s love life that obviously cannot be acknowledged because of Chinese funding. Also unspoken is this admiration—so repressed that it can’t count as love—which turns into regret as deca...
The anthology skips over the 1970s, as they were originally meant for John Woo before he quit the project for health reasons. Patrick Tam picks up in the 1980s with a melodramatic tale of an impending breakup between two teenage lovers, as the girl faces emigration. Edited with French New Wave–style jump cuts and underscored by a synthy Cantopop ba...
Yuen Woo-ping directs the omnibus’ second story about emigration, and it doesn’t stop here. An internationalized high schooler briefly stays with her deeply traditional grandfather before she follows her parents to Canada. If Hung’s short is warm and romantic, Yuen’s is straight up heartwarming, a surprise for both martial arts masters. Yuen define...
If the soul of Hong Kong left with the British, all that was left in the 2000s was the opportunity to make money. A trio of young white collars meet up during lunch hour to invest in stocks, against financial upheavals like the dot-com bubble, the SARS epidemic, and an increasing trend of subprime mortgage defaults. Returning to the subject of spec...
The late Ringo Lam, who passed away after shooting his segment, marks the third action director to make a drama for Septet, and also the third to define his decade with a story of emigration. Trying to meet up with his wife and son, a returnee father loses himself in the central business district, as colonial landmarks have disappeared. By the time...
Hong Kong steps into the future as Tsui Hark retreats into a futuristic, dystopian psychiatric hospital. As a psychiatrist interviews his patient, the patient keeps claiming identities like—you probably didn’t guess it—Ann Hui, Ringo Lam, and many more. As psychiatrist and patient and subjects and observers flip identities, Tsui suggests a world wh...
For a “story of Hong Kong,” Septetremains surprisingly limited in genre. Whether it is by design or not, the seven masters, all in their 60s or 70s, have unilaterally taken a resigned tone. Not only do these shorts reflect the weary effects of aging and the toll Hong Kong takes on its inhabitants, but they also show the personal growth and evolutio...
Nov 4, 2022 · Ann Hui. Director. Yau Nai-hoi. Writer. Melvin Luk. Writer. Au Kin-yee. Writer. Lou Shiu-wa. Writer. Roy Szeto. Writer. A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.
Oct 29, 2022 · Seven short films, shot on 35mm and directed by 7 of Hong Kong's most acclaimed and significant directors, form a heartfelt symphony about Hong Kong.
Aug 12, 2022 · Directed by Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yuen Woo-ping, Johnnie To, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark. Starring Timmy Hung, Francis Ng, Jennifer Yu, Yuen Wah, Tony Tsz-Tung Wu. 111 mins. In Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles. Seven legendary Hong Kong directors chronicle histories of the city and its cinema in an anthology film…
Jul 28, 2022 · Septet: The Story of Hong KOng. Directors: Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yuen Wo-ping, Johnnie To, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark • Writers: Sammo Hung, Au Kin-yee, Lou Shiu-wa, Melvin Luk, Patrick Tam, Yuen Wo-ping, Johnnie To, Yau Nai-hoi, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, Roy Szeto.
