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Culture/ Film & TV

The Trough film review: Nick Cheung reinvents Hong Kong noir with hyper-stylised third outing as director

Set in a futuristic multiracial city where it’s always raining, The Trough is not your typical cops-and-robbers film. Cheung plays an unhinged detective on the trail of a crime boss, but audiences shouldn’t dwell too much on the story

Set in a futuristic multiracial city where it’s always raining, The Trough is not your typical cops-and-robbers film. Cheung plays an unhinged detective on the trail of a crime boss, but audiences shouldn’t dwell too much on the story

2.5/5 stars

Anyone who presumed that Nick Cheung Ka-fai would emulate the style of frequent collaborators Dante Lam Chiu-yin and Johnnie To Kei-fung as a director is in for a surprise. While the acclaimed actor has shown that he’s neither the most elegant, nor the most persuasive, storyteller with his three films to date, his bizarre vision has brought unusual twists to their genres.