Ann Hui brings literature to Venice film festival
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| Hong Kong director Ann Hui is the only director to have won the Best Director prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards four times. [Photo/Weibo.com] |
Hui explains her film was mostly shot on real locations, including old, preserved buildings in different places of China, such as Harbin, Wuhan and Shanghai.
"Unfortunately, I could not find a single building left in Hong Kong from those years," she says.
"We used an extreme format that is very experimental to make the story even more interesting to the audience."
Different subjects and faces have fascinated the director since she started her career in the 1970s, she says. "At the beginning I was very attracted by melodrama, suspense movies, violence, kung fu movies. Then, in the middle, I began to like very static movies about thought, which had to do with how I felt and changed personally," she explains.
"Now I am interested in how people behave and live their own lives, especially when they are very ordinary. For this reason, despite the historical and intellectual background, I think this movie is not difficult for the general audience to understand. Human nature, love and betrayal are common themes all over the world."
Hui was born in 1947 in Harbin to a Chinese father and Japanese mother. She studied for two years at London Film School after graduating with a Hong Kong University degree in comparative literature. She is the only director to have won the Best Director prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards four times.
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