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Ann Hui's Night And Fog, at the 33rd HKIFF

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With the duel tales of Night and Fog, this year's HKIFF Opening Gala, and The Way We Are, which was shown in HKIFF last year, director Ann Hui has vigorously returned to the sensitive sociopolitical issues that have previously brought her acclaim. This time, the subject is the town of Tin Shui Wai. Raymond Phathanavirangoon sits down with the director to talk about the films.

Ann Hui's last year effort The Way We Are won the Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Female Lead and Best Supporting Female Awards at the 2009 HK film Awards ceremony. (more here)

Here is an except of Hui's words at the HKIFF.

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How did you come across this story about the murder-suicide in Tin Shui Wai? Was it from the news?

I think it was in 2004 when I was talking with my scriptwriter about what project to do next. And then we both read about this story in April 2004. Both of us were very shocked by it. So we wanted to go to Tin Shui Wai and interview some people about what happened – why something like this could happen. So we went there and spent the whole summer interviewing people. We interviewed the neighbours, including the head of the women's aerobics class, the district councilor….the police and the social worker refused to see us – maybe they were busy. But we saw other social workers and they talked to us about the case and took us to Tin Shui Wai to introduce us to immigrant housewives from China – they were all very friendly and very helpful. We also shot some of the footage, thinking that we might make it into a documentary, but then later I decided to do a feature, because there were so many gaps since a lot of people who we should interview wouldn't see us.

But then we were fortunate because we met the deceased woman's father and mother, who came to their daughter's funeral in Shenzhen. So we went to Szechuan in September and visited their farmhouse there, and then we decided to write the script. We finished a very detailed outline of the script by December, and then the next year we took the project to HAF (the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum).

Full interview at the HKIFF website.

Night and Fog features Simon Yam and Zhang Jingchu.

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ah_thomas	Ecrit le : Dimanche 26 Avril 2009 11h25
HK film expert Groupe : Administrateurs Messages : 6914 Membre n° : 2 Inscrit le : 24/04/2004 Dragon	An interview with Ann Hui by SMCP on youtube. -------------------- Admin. Forum \| Co-webmaster hkcinemagic.com \| Facebook Fan Page \| Avez-vous lu les règles du forum ? Respectez-les.

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HK film expert Groupe : Administrateurs Messages : 6914 Membre n° : 2 Inscrit le : 24/04/2004 Dragon	Our contributor from So Good Reviews, Ken, did a video review on The Way We Are -- the dyptich first part: http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/movie.asp?id=10412#gal -------------------- Admin. Forum \| Co-webmaster hkcinemagic.com \| Facebook Fan Page \| Avez-vous lu les règles du forum ? Respectez-les.

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