2nd HKOSFF - Beyond the Dream
播放日期：08/25/2024 12:00 AM PST - 09/01/2024 11:59PM 美國西岸時間
Release Date：08/25/2024 12:00 AM PST - 09/01/2024 11:59PM PST
幻愛
製作年份 / 2019
片長 / 120 分鐘
語言 / 粵語對白，中英文字幕
導演 / 周冠威
在2020年疫情高峰時，三部由高先發行的電影成功跑出，被網民貴為「高先三寶」。當中最火紅的莫過於周冠威導演的《幻愛》。周冠威以政治作品聞名，《幻愛》卻出奇地是一部浪漫愛情片，講述了年輕人李志樂與葉嵐相戀的故事。《幻愛》於平平無奇的屯門取景，但攝影師司徒一雷精緻的鏡頭卻成功譜出了屯門的詩意與城市美學，幾個取景場地更搖身一變成了熱門打卡點。《幻愛》亦見證了戲内情侶劉俊謙與蔡詩韵成為新星，證明了香港電影仍然可以出產年輕偶像，以及在典型類型片和寫實劇情片外還有出路。周冠威的政治作品使純樸的《幻愛》都難逃被禁的命運，印證了現今香港電影市場的困難與制肘。
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BEYOND THE DREAM
Year of production / 2019
Duration / 120 min
Language / In Cantonese with English subtitles
Director / Kiwi Chow
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At the height of the pandemic in 2020, a trio of films by local distributor Golden Scene emerged as viral box office hits, and Beyond the Dream was the most popular among them. Directed by Kiwi Chow, Beyond the Dream is perhaps an uncharacteristically romantic film by the politically polemical director. Telling a bittersweet love story between young Lok and Yan, the film takes place in the working class area of Tuen Mun, an unusual setting for Hong Kong cinema. Yet with thoughtful cinematography by Szeto Yat-lui, Chow crafts a city poem of connections out of this overlooked neighborhood, and single-handedly transformed a few of the film’s locations into local tourism hotspots. The film also marks the star-is-born moment of real-life celebrity couple Terrance Lau and Cecilia Choi. Beyond the Dream proves that Hong Kong cinema can still birth new, young idols, and that there is an appealing path beyond the city’s usual genre flicks and social realist dramas. Because of Chow’s politically explicit films, the otherwise innocuous Beyond the Dream has not escaped the fate of being retrospectively banned, a testament to the challenges of making Hong Kong cinema right now.
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