Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (August 24-30), from Lady Macbeth to Dangal
A Shakespeare tragedy gets a Victorian update, Bollywood wrestling women, vintage Maggie Cheung, a bruising Hong Kong thriller from Ip Man director, and a love story in an abattoir are among this week’s pick of the flicks
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1. Lady Macbeth
Russian writer Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 short novel Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District receives an astonishingly brutal film adaptation in this period revenge thriller by British director William Oldroyd. Florence Pugh couldn’t have made a more striking impression as the cruel and amoral heroine. (Opens on August 24)
2. Dangal
A major box office hit in China until Wolf Warrior II stole the limelight, this Bollywood crowd-pleaser finds an uncommon women-empowering focus in its story of a former wrestling champion (played by Aamir Khan), who defies customs and family pressure to train two of his daughters for the sport. (Opens on August 24)
3. Last Romance