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Paul Fonoroff

New Releases
The Soul of Bread (IIA) (Mandarin, Taiwanese and English)
See review on this page.
Guilty of Romance (III) (Japanese)
See review on this page. 
Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (IIB) (English and Hindi)
Documentary that celebrates Bollywood and tries to explain its movies' attractions. CT 
Mirror Mirror (I) (English and Cantonese versions)
Tarsem Singh's adventure comedy take on Snow White and Seven Dwarves has a brave young princess (Lily Collins) enlisting the help of seven resourceful rebels to reclaim her birthright and defeat her evil step-mother (Julia Roberts). CT 
Dr Seuss' The Lorax (I) (English and Cantonese versions)
Stereoscopic animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' story of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. Not reviewed.
Man on a Ledge (IIA)
Sam Worthington stars in this thriller about an escaped prisoner who enacts a stunt that masks a dangerous ploy to reveal the truth about his tarnished name. Not reviewed.
Pleasant Goat & Big Big Wolf 4 (I) (Cantonese)
The fourth instalment of this animated film series tells the story of how the goats and wolf search for the Dragon Flute needed to save the dragon world. Not reviewed.
Long Qing Shi Yi Ban Shi Ji (I) (Cantonese)
Film showing Cantonese opera veterans Lung Kim-sung and Mui Suet-see celebrating their half-century careers with performances of four acts at three locations. Not reviewed.  
Titanic 3-D (IIA)
Stereoscopic version of James Cameron's 1997 romantic drama about a young man and woman from differing social backgrounds who meet during the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Not reviewed. 
General Releases
A Separation (IIA) (Persian)
Asghar Farhadi's drama about a man with a young daughter whose life is crucially affected by one poor decision he makes after his wife leaves him. CT 
A Simple Life (I) (Cantonese and Putonghua)
Deanie Ip Tak-han and Andy Lau Tak-wah star in Ann Hui On-wah's drama based on film producer Roger Lee's caring half-century relationship with his family maid. PF 
The Artist (IIA) (English intertitles)
Michel Hazanavicius' romance centring on a silent movie star (Jean Dujardin) who, even as he feels threatened by talking pictures, is attracted to an actress (Berenice Bejo) who hits it big in the talkies era.  CT
Carnage (IIB)
Drama showing how four seemingly sophisticated adults regress into puerile point-scoring and physical confrontation. Starring Jodie Foster.  CT 
The Grey (IIB)
Adventure drama about a group of plane-crash survivors whom a skilled huntsman (Liam Neeson) attempts to lead to safety even as they are dogged by a pack of merciless wolves. CT 
The Hunger Games (IIB)
Sci-fi action-drama set in a post-nuclear war America whose rulers force each of its 12 districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in battles to the death.  CT  
The Iron Lady (IIA)
Meryl Streep stars in Phyllida Lloyd's dramatic look at the life of Margaret Thatcher. CT 
Love Actually ... Sucks (III) (Cantonese and English)
 Drama by Scud about a variety of stories of love gone wrong. CT 
Love in the Buff (IIB) (Cantonese and Putonghua)
Pang Ho-Cheung's romantic comedy sequel to Love in a Puff has a former couple (Miriam Yeung Chin-wah and Shawn Yue Man-lok) pursuing careers in Beijing but unable to forget each other. LKW 
Love Lifting (IIB) (Cantonese and Putonghua)
Herman Yau Lai-to's drama about a diabetic mainland weightlifter's fight for redemption after she moves to Hong Kong. Starring Elanne Kong Yeuk-lam. CT
Nightfall (IIB) (Cantonese and English)
Nick Cheung Ka-fai and Simon Yam Tak-wah star in Roy Chow Hin-yeung's mystery about a detective who uncovers a shocking secret while investigating a celebrity's murder. CT 
One Nation, Two Cities (I) (Cantonese, Putonghua and Fujianese)
Cheung King-wai's documentary centring on a Fujianese woman who has been fighting for right of abode in Hong Kong for 30 years. YT
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (IIB) (English, Hungarian and Russian)
Tomas Alfredson's mystery-thriller based on John Le Carre's 1974 cold war novel about an espionage veteran (Gary Oldman) out to uncover a Soviet mole within the British Secret Intelligence Service. CT 
Wrath of the Titans (IIA)
Action adventure-fantasy about Perseus - the demigod son of Zeus - who goes to his father's rescue after the Titan Kronos, father of Zeus, conspires with another son to capture him. CT
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (IIA) (Hindi, English and Spanish)
Bollywood comedy-drama revolving around three friends who decide to turn their fantasy holiday into reality after one of them becomes engaged. Not reviewed.
Art House 
36th HK International Film Festival
HK International Film Festival Society presents 283 films from 50 territories, including the following 25. Until Apr 9. HK Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Rd, Wan Chai; HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central; HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST; HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho; HK Science Museum, 2 Science Museum Rd, TST East; HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST; The Grand Cinema, 2/F Elements, 1 Austin Rd West, Kowloon; and UA Langham Place, 8/F-11/F Langham Place, 8 Argyle St, Mong Kok, HK$40-HK$100 Urbtix. Inquiries: hkiff.org.hk
Modest Reception
Mani Haghighi's farcical morality tale centring on a wealthy couple who travel through a war-torn area offering poor people money in return for their undertaking increasingly humiliating actions. In Persian with English subtitles. Apr 5, 3.15pm, HK Space Museum.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey I
The first three episodes of Mark Cousins' 15-part television documentary about the history of cinematic innovation. In English. Apr 5, 7.15pm, HK Arts Centre.
White Deer Plain
Wang Quanan's adaptation of novelist Chen Zhongshi's epic tale of the tragedies befalling two ruling clans between 1910 and 1938. In Shaanxi dialect with English subtitles. Apr 5, 7.15pm, HK Cultural Centre.
Goodbye
Drama by Mohammad Rasoulof about a young Tehran lawyer, disbarred due to her activism, who searches for a visa to leave Iran. In Persian with English subtitles. Apr 5, 7.30pm, UA Langham Place.
Courage
Drama about two brothers who react very differently when a woman is harassed by hooligans while on a train, with dramatic consequences. In Polish with English subtitles. Apr 5, 9.30pm, The Grand Cinema.
Tabu
Miguel Gomes' drama about an old woman whose housekeeper and neighbour discover after her death was involved in a tale of love against adversity  in Africa. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Apr 5, 9.30pm, UA Langham Place.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey II
Episodes 4-6 of Mark Cousins' documentary on the history of cinematic innovation. In English. Apr 6, 12.30pm, HK Arts Centre.
Fragments of Kubelka
Martina Kudlacek's 232-minute documentary portrait of Austrian filmmaker-theoretician Peter Kubelka. In English. Apr 6, 1.45pm, HK Science Museum.
Our Doctor, Our Chief
Yuzo Kawashima's drama about a young doctor beloved by his working class Tokyo tenement neighbours who faces an uncertain future after another doctor reveals plans to build a hospital in the area. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 2.30pm, HK Arts Centre, Apr 8, 5.15pm, HK Space Museum.
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Drama revolving around an ambitious businessman whose big dreams are threatened after he gets romantically entangled with women, including his investor's wife. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 4.30pm, Apr 8, 7.15pm, HK Space Museum. 
The Third Dead Angle
Drama centring on a loyal employee at a large shipbuilding company assigned to investigate the leakage of industrial secrets. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 5pm, HK Arts Centre, Apr 8, 2pm, HK Space Museum.
Almanya: Welcome to Germany
Yasemin Samdereli's feel-good comedy about three generations of a Turkish family living in Germany. In German and Turkish with Chinese and English subtitles. Apr 6, 7pm, HK Science Museum, Apr 8, 5pm, HK Arts Centre.
Burden of Love
Yuzo Kawashima's 1955 satire of a bourgeois family that keeps having children, even though the patriarch is a government official promoting birth control. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 7pm, Apr 8, 9.40pm, HK Space Museum.
Intimidation
 Koreyoshi Kurahara's 1960 thriller about a bank manager who decides to rob his own bank after a gangster appears to blackmail him. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 7.30pm, HK Arts Centre, Apr 9, 2.30pm, HK Space Museum.
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light
Melodrama about a couple working at a sake bar and noodle shop in the Tokyo red-light district of Suzaki Paradise who seek to move up in society. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 9.30pm, HK Space Museum, Apr 9, 5pm, HK Arts Centre. 
The Warped Ones
Drama centring on two juvenile delinquents newly released from jail looking for thrills. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 6, 9.30pm, HK Arts Centre, Apr 9, 4.30pm, HK Space Museum.
This is Not a Film
Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's non-fiction film shows a day in the life of Panahi, who is serving a six-year jail term and 20-year ban on making films by the Iranian authorities. In Persian with English subtitles. Apr 6, 9.45pm, HK Science Museum.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey III
Episodes 7-9 of the documentary on the history of cinematic innovation. In English. Apr 7, 12.30pm, HK Arts Centre.
Come As You Are
Coming-of-age comedy revolving around three physically disabled brothers who embark on a road trip in Spain's wine country to lose their virginity. Geoffrey Enthoven directs. In Dutch, French and English with English subtitles. Apr 7, 5pm, HK Science Museum. 
Glass-Hearted Johnny
Drama about a young Hokkaido woman sold into prostitution who, after she escapes, finds an unlikely ally in the form of a young hustler. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 7, 5pm, HK Arts Centre, Apr 9, 7pm, HK Space Museum.
Black Sun
Thriller revolving around a jazz-loving Japanese slacker who befriends and goes on the run with an AWOL black American GI. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 7, 7.30pm, HK Arts Centre, Apr 9, 9.15pm, HK Space Museum. 
Le Havre
Aki Kaurismaki's quasi-magic realist drama about an African boy who arrives by cargo ship in the French port city of Le Havre and is welcomed by an ageing shoe shiner into his home. In French with Chinese and English subtitles. Apr 7, 7.30pm, HK Science Museum.
Elegant Beast
Black comedy about a family of scheming, self-serving hustlers who will do anything to get ahead. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 7, 9.30pm, HK Space Museum, Apr 9, 9.30pm, HK Arts Centre.
Faust
Alexander Sokurov's absurdist fantasy take on the German fable in which a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. In German with Chinese and English subtitles. Apr 7, 9.30pm, HK Science Museum.
Thirst for Love
Koreyoshi Kurahara's adaptation of Yukio Mishima's novel about a woman widowed right after marrying into a wealthy family who begins an affair with her father-in-law while obsessing over the family gardener. In Japanese with English subtitles. Apr 7, 9.30pm, HK Arts Centre.
The Classics of The Royal Opera House Season II
MCL Cinema presents a programme of four operas and ballets from the Royal Opera House screened in high definition and 5.1 surround sound, including the following two. Apr 6-May 13. MCL Kornhill Cinema, 4/F, Kornhill Plaza South, 2 Kornhill Road, Quarry Bay; MCL Telford Cinema, Telford Gardens, 33 Wai Yip St, Kowloon Bay; Star Cinema, 1/F PopCorn, 9 Tong Yin St, Tseung Kwan O; and The Grand Cinema, 2/F Elements, 1 Austin Rd West, Kowloon, HK$110 mclcinema.com. Inquiries: 2418 8841
Manon
Film of The Royal Ballet's production of Kenneth Macmillan's dramatic ballet about a country girl turned courtesan who seeks wealth and love; with music composed by Jules Massenet. Apr 6, May 12, 4pm, MCL Telford, Apr 14, 22, May 5, 4pm, The Grand Cinema, Apr 29, 4pm, Star Cinema.
Giselle
Film of The Royal Ballet's production about the ghost of a young peasant woman who protects her lover from the vengeance of a group of evil spirits; with music composed by Adolphe Adam. Apr 7, 28, May 13, 4pm, The Grand Cinema, Apr 14, 7.30pm, MCL Telford, Apr 21, 7.30pm, Star Cinema, May 5, 4pm, MCL Kornhill Cinema.
HK Arts Festival: Festival Plus (Re-run)
The HK Arts Festival, Unitel Classica and Classical in Cinema present a programme of three Mozart operas filmed in high definition from the Salzburg Festival, including the following film. Apr 7-28. The Grand Cinema, 2/F Elements, 1 Austin Rd West, Kowloon, HK$150 thegrandcinema.com.hk. Inquiries: 2196 8170
The Magic Flute
Film of the Salzburg Festival staging of Mozart's opera about a prince who, with the help of a magic flute, goes on a quest to rescue the Queen of the Night's daughter. Christian Gerhaher, Genia Kuhmeier and Paul Groves star, Pierre Audi directs, and Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic. In German with Chinese and English subtitles. Apr 7, 4pm, The Grand Cinema.
100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies
The HK Film Archive presents a programme of 100 Hong Kong films from 1916 to 1999, including the following film. Until 2014. Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square St, Yau Ma Tei, HK$55 www.cinema.com.hk; and HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, HK$30 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 
Drunken Master
Jackie Chan stars in Yuen Woo-ping's 1978 kung fu comedy centring on a young and mischievous Wong Fei-hung who undergoes martial arts training under drunken master Beggar So. Also starring Simn Yuen Siu-tin. In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles. Apr 7, 7pm, HK Film Archive, Apr 15, 2pm, Broadway Cinematheque.



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