Directed by Man Lim-chung • 2020 • Hong Kong
Starring Ann Hui, Ann Hui, Nansun Shi
This 2020 documentary, the directorial debut of Ann Hui’s longtime production designer and art director Man Lim-chung, is an intimate and candid portrait of Hui’s astonishing life and prolific career as one of Hong Kong’s greatest filmmakers. It combines rare archival photographs and footage with interviews with Hui and such other towering figures of Asian cinema as Tsui Hark, Fruit Chan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jia Zhangke.
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