At the End of the Daybreak
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
Sham moh
Países:
Director:
Ho YuhangColor:
Color
Format:
35 mm
Duration:
94 min
Cast:
- Chui Tien You,
- Wai Ying-Hong
- Ng Meng Hui
Production:
- GUIÓN: Ho Yuhang
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Teoh Gay Hian
- MONTAJE: Mindy Wong
- PRODUCCIÓN: Lorna Tee
Contact:
- Golden Scene Company Ltd.
- Winnie Tsang
- 15B Astoria Building, 34 Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
- Hong Kong, China
- T +852 2265 9911
- F +852 2302 0938
- E winnie@goldenscene.com
- W www.goldenscene.com
Synopsis
One of the most interesting voices of New Malayan Cinema, Ho Yuhang (to whom Bafici devoted a focus in 2007) approaches film noir in his new film, based on a newspaper article about a crime. Of course, being the director of Rain Dogs, the result is a chasm away from common places, even when at a certain point of the plot a detective appears. The starting point is the unexpected and secret romance between a working class young man (Chui Tien-yau), and a minor born from a rich family. When the affaire is discovered, the girl’s parents pressure the boy’s alcoholic mother (Kara Hui, rightfully awarded for this role) in the search for a compensation. From that moment on, events rush ahead. As usual, Yuhang subverts the narration with resources meant to set a distance between the characters and the audience: texts, editing effects, and a violent interruption of the dramatic arch, all seem to avoid genre mechanisms, while at the same time stress the premonitory ambience of the film.
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