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Edmund Lee

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1. A Simple Favor
Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick shine in this neo-noir female-friendship comedy with dark psychological undercurrents. Fresh from the smashing success of Crazy Rich Asians , Henry Golding provides a decent supporting turn as a husband with a missing wife. (Opens on October 4)


2. Kusama – Infinity
Artist documentaries may be a dime a dozen, but this illuminating profile of the pre-eminent Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama proves the format can be appealing to a wide audience. Anyone wondering about the meaning behind her brightly coloured dots will find much to savour in this decades-spanning portrait. (Opens on October 4)


3. God’s Own Country
Charting the tough relationship between a young sheep farmer in Yorkshire and a Romanian farm hand, director Francis Lee’s critically acclaimed directorial debut is the best recent film to explore the economic woes of Britain’s farmers, and one of the most memorable rural gay romances since Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. (Now showing)


4. Bergman – A Year in a Life
This engrossing documentary portrait of the late, great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman examines his legacy through a wide range of interviews, and with a focus on the year of 1957 – when Bergman released two all-time classics, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries. (October 7, part of Cine Fan programme)


5. Project Gutenberg
Writer-director Felix Chong Man-keung serves up an engrossing account of the counterfeit money-making process in this stylish crime drama, which gradually morphs into a full-on action thriller with dubiously crafted twists. Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok Fu-shing are both excellent in their complex roles. (Opens on October 4)
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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (October 4-10), from A Simple Favor to Project Gutenberg

A modern-day film noir with two female leads, a stylish crime drama starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok, and two artist documentaries are among this week’s must-see films

Blake Lively and Henry Golding in A Simple Favor. Photo: Peter Iovino

How Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok trusted Felix Chong to direct them in Project Gutenberg

Director is celebrated for scripting hits such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy and Overheard series, which he also helmed, yet struggles to get his stories told. He has his supporters, though

Aaron Kwok plays a painter who turns to making counterfeit money in Project Gutenberg.

Hong Kong film director Felix Chong poses for a photograph in Hong Kong. SCMP / Edmond So [FEATURES 2018]

Chow Yun-fat (right) and Aaron Kwok in a still from Project Gutenberg.

Chow Yun-fat (left) and Aaron Kwok in a still from Project Gutenberg.

Chow Yun-fat in Project Gutenberg, referencing his iconic role in A Better Tomorrow (1986).

From left: director Felix Chong, Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok on the set of Project Gutenberg.

Chow Yun-fat (right) and Aaron Kwok in Project Gutenberg by Felix Chong.

Like Brokeback Mountain but in Yorkshire: English farmer’s son on his film God’s Own Country

Director of the most acclaimed new British film in years, Francis Lee brought his own experience of life on a northern English farm to the story. Its star insists that, despite comparisons with Ang Lee’s film, it is not about sexual repression or coming out

A still from God's Own Country.

British actor Francis Lee poses arriving for the 23rd annual Empire Awards in London on March 18, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony HARVEY

Josh O'Connor (left) and Alec Secareanu in a still from God's Own Country.

Director Francis Lee accepts the world cinema: dramatic special jury award for God’s Own Country at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Photo: Nicholas Hunt

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A modern-day film noir with two female leads, a stylish crime drama starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok, and two artist documentaries are among this week’s must-see films


A Simple Favour, a modern-day film noir with two female leads, Project Gutenberg, a stylish crime drama starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok, and two artist documentaries are among this week’s must-see films.
