Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (June 8-14), from The Summer is Gone to Afterimage
Charming family drama set in 1990s Inner Mongolia from a first-time director and the final film from a Polish master are the standouts, while blockbuster Wonder Woman has plenty of fans
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Executive-produced by celebrated Tibetan-Chinese filmmaker Pema Tseden, first-time director Zhang Dalei’s 1990s-set drama captures both the poignant dynamics of a family living in Inner Mongolia and the evolving social reality in a China on the cusp of drastic economic reforms. (Opens on June 8)
2 Polina
Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling lead the delightful cast of this restrained yet consistently enthralling adaptation of Julian Barnes’ prize-winning novel, which considers the fallibility of memories through a retiree’s emotional recollections of events that took place in his early 20s. (Now showing)
The late, great Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda completed this powerful portrait of the avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski before he died at the age of 90, and it’s hard not to be moved by his angry manifesto on the vital importance of artistic freedom – even under authoritarian rule. (Opens on June 8)
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