Top 5 films to watch in Hong Kong this week: September 15-21
A return to form for Spanish master Pedro Almodovar, Tom Hanks as a real-life pilot hero, and Ron Howard’s documentary on The Beatles on tour
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Freely adapted from three Alice Munro short stories (Chance, Soon and Silence), Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar’s 20th feature is a gorgeously staged and grippingly narrated tale of maternal love, brought to life by Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte.
(Opens on September 15)
How do you make a feature film out of a crisis that lasted all of 208 seconds? Clint Eastwood has just the answer in this riveting drama, which envisions how Captain Chesley Sullenberger pulled off the so-called Miracle on the Hudson – and then faced a bureaucratic nightmare.
(Opens on September 15)
Gian Maria Volonte stars as a police chief who kills his mistress before intentionally leaving clues of his own guilt in this 1970 classic by the Italian director Elio Petri – a crime thriller that doubled as a critique of police corruption rampant at the time.
(September 16, part of Cine Fan programme)
In a committed performance comparable to her award-winning turn in 2009’s At the End of Daybreak , Kara Wai Ying-hung plays a dementia-stricken woman who finds humanity in her unexpected friendship with the self-centred young man (Carlos Chan Ka-lok) she takes in.
(Now showing)
(September 16 and 18, part of Movie Movie Life is Art festival)
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