Ah Ying ( Restored Version ) and 32+4Tai Kwun - Centre for Heritage and Arts

Ah Ying (Restored Version)

Ah Ying is a daughter of a fishmonger's family, but it doesn't stop her passion for literature and art: after work, she listens to rock and avant-garde music on the hi-fi in a corner at home and attends acting classes at an art centre, with a wild and free curly-haired rock drummer as her boyfriend. Cheung Chung-pak is a middle-aged man who returned from the US but finds himself in his career doldrums looking for chances for filmmaking. While working as a tutor at the art centre, he meets Ah Ying who wants to break a new path in life. He opens up the girl's horizons in the artistic world wider than the mundane everyday life, while the girl also brings him comfort as a soulmate along his way of artistic pursuit. Integrating the real life of the leading actress Hui So-ying and her relationship with her late teacher into the fictional drama, director Allen Fong found an alternative way to employ real stories in film and at the same time further reveal the truth. The film has brought Hong Kong cinema to a new height in the questioning of fictional and reality, in the creation and exploration of form, and in the ultimate pursuit of presenting a certain truth. It also recorded the unique art scene and the city in the early 1980s – the hybrid and diverse atmosphere full of vitality and possibility is one of the most distinctive elements of the film.

Director: Allen Fong
1983 | Colour | Cantonese | Chinese and English subtitles | 110mins

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32+4

Director Chan Hau-chun points the camera at herself and her beloved family to face directly the intractable problems entangled in the family for years and sort out her love-hate relationship with the family. The revelation of her complex family background and past events shakes the audience's hearts on one hand but also creates sincere interactions and insights on the other. The questioning and awareness towards reality make the film an extraordinary one in recent Hong Kong cinema.

Director: Chan Hau-chun
2014 | Colour | Cantonese | Chinese and English subtitles | 32mins

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