Bends (film)
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Flora Lau Music director Patrick Jonsson Duration Country Hong Kong | 6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Flora Lau Writer Flora Lau Language CantoneseMandarin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 18 May 2013 (2013-05-18) (Cannes)21 November 2013 (2013-11-21) (Hong Kong) Initial release November 21, 2013 (Hong Kong) Cast (Mrs. Li), (Fai), , (Bob), (Hoi), Michelle Lo Similar movies Carina Lau appears in Bends and Days of Being Wild |
Bends trailer festival 2013
Bends (Chinese: 過界) is a 2013 Hong Kong drama film directed by Flora Lau. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Cast
Plot
Anna (Carina Lau), a wealthy Hong Kong housewife, suddenly finds herself deep in financial trouble as her only source of income, her husband, disappears. Her driver, Fai (Chen Kun), who lives in Shenzhen with his wife, are expecting the couple's second child. But under China's One Child Policy, they need to find the money to pay the penalty or the couple must find a way for Fai's wife to give birth in Hong Kong.
Critical reception
Maggie Lee of Variety wrote, "Flora Lau's debut is beautifully assembled by a top-pedigree production crew, but it remains a modest accomplishment in scope and impact."
Andrea Lo of HK Magazine gave the film 4 stars out of 5. She wrote, "The film is topical and emotionally fraught for all of us in Hong Kong, posing questions of wealth and status between our city and the mainland: questions that are on all our minds."
Awards
Chen Kun won the Best Actor Award at the 2013 International du Film de Femmes de Sale in Morocco. Carina Lau won the Best Actress Award at the 2014 Osaka Asian Film Festival.
References
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