Top 5 films to watch in Hong Kong this week: March 31-April 6
A Hong Kong gangland universal suffrage fable, two early Stanley Kubrick efforts, and Disney's magical Zootopia are among this week's must-see movies
1. Sing Street
A Dublin teenager starts a band to impress a cool girl in this 1985-set comedy, which is as much Once director John Carney’s nostalgic response to 1980s music and fashion as it is a celebration of the zest of adolescence. (April 6, opening film of Film Ireland programme)
2. The Mobfathers
Director Herman Yau isn’t known for pulling punches in his films on social injustice, and he delivers in exhilarating fashion with this gangland universal suffrage fable, in which three of Hong Kong’s most politically active actors share top billing. (Opens on March 31)
3. Fear and Desire / The Seafarers
Don’t miss this opportunity to catch Stanley Kubrick’s feature debut Fear and Desire, a low-budget anti-war allegory from 1953. screening with The Seafarers, a documentary short he made in the same year. (April 3, part of Hong Kong Film Archive’s Restored Treasures programme)