Artist Yank Wong Yan-kwai (right) and filmmaker Angie Chen in a scene from the documentary I’ve Got the Blues (category IIA; Cantonese, English, French), directed by Chen.

I’ve Got the Blues film review: Hong Kong artist Yank Wong receives engaging if rambling documentary portrait

Filmmaker Angie Chen’s profile of renaissance man and long-time friend Wong has an air of self-indulgence, but it also portrays the abstract painter as a thoroughly free-spirited individual who cares only to create and enjoy life

Topic | Chinese language cinema

Edmund Lee

Published: 6:00pm, 4 Jul, 2018

Updated: 6:12pm, 4 Jul, 2018

Artist Yank Wong Yan-kwai (right) and filmmaker Angie Chen in a scene from the documentary I’ve Got the Blues (category IIA; Cantonese, English, French), directed by Chen.

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Edmund Lee

Edmund Lee is the film editor of the Post. Before joining the Culture desk in 2013, he was the arts and culture editor of Time Out Hong Kong. Since he graduated in English and Comparative Literature, Edmund has also studied law and written an MPhil thesis on Hirokazu Koreeda. He is on a masochistic mission to review every Hong Kong film being released.