Английская Википедия:Bends (film)
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Bends (Шаблон:Zh) is a 2013 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Flora Lau in her directorial debut. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Plot
Anna, a wealthy Hong Kong housewife, suddenly finds herself deep in financial trouble as her only source of income, her husband, disappears. Her driver, Fai, who lives in Shenzhen with his wife, are expecting the couple's second child. But under China's One Child Policy, they need to find the money to pay the penalty or the couple must find a way for Fai's wife to give birth in Hong Kong.
Cast
- Carina Lau as Anna
- Chen Kun as Fai
- Tian Yuan as Tingting
- Lawrence Cheng as Leo
- Stephanie Che
- Elena Kong
- Tony Ho[2][3]
Critical reception
Maggie Lee of Variety wrote, "Flora Lau's debut is beautifully assembled by a top-pedigree production crew, but it remains a modest accomplishment in scope and impact."[4]
Andrea Lo of HK Magazine gave the film 4 stars out of 5. She wrote, "The film is topical and emotionally fraught for all of us in Hong Kong, posing questions of wealth and status between our city and the mainland: questions that are on all our minds."[5]
Awards
Chen Kun won the Best Actor Award at the 2013 International du Film de Femmes de Sale in Morocco.[6] Carina Lau won the Best Actress Award at the 2014 Osaka Asian Film Festival.[7]
References
External links
- Английская Википедия
- 2013 films
- 2013 directorial debut films
- 2013 drama films
- 2010s Cantonese-language films
- 2010s English-language films
- 2010s Hong Kong films
- 2010s Mandarin-language films
- English-language Hong Kong films
- Films scored by Patrick Jonsson
- Films set in Shenzhen
- Hong Kong drama films
- Hong Kong multilingual films
- 2013 multilingual films
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