Port of Call (2015)

Slo naslov: -

Država: Hong Kong

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 98' (DC 126'),  Imdb

Žanri: Krimi, Drama, Misterij  

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Philip Yung

Scenarij: Philip Yung

Igrajo: Aaron Kwok Fu Sing, Jessie Li, Michael Ning, Elaine Jin, Patrick Tam, Jacky Cai, Maggie Siu, Tai Bo

[ENG]

A teenage prostitute is murdered; her body cut up and flushed down the toilet, and her severed head thrown into Victoria Harbor. Director Philip Yung chooses to focus not on the crime or the investigation, but on the dead girl and her family, the cop and his family, and the killer who is without a family. The result is a genre-bender that progresses as it digresses, an atmospheric mosaic of human lives and actions that invariably get complicated, out of order and beyond reason, and with the characters firmly grounded in gritty and unforgiving reality.

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Based on real events, Philip Yung’s latest exploration into Hong Kong’s disaffected youth details the grisly murder of a teenage prostitute and the efforts of an eccentric police detective (played by Aaron Kwok) to understand the motives of both the victim and her killer. Blending social commentary with police procedural, Port of Call – which was shot by Christopher Doyle - is an absorbing and at times grisly portrayal of modern Chinese society and adolescent apathy that hits enough genre beats to ensure it a life beyond local audiences. (James Marsh, Screen Daily)

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