By Ed Sum
(The Vintage Tempest)
Dead Pigs may sound like an unusual title for a movie to kick off Chinese New Year on its Victoria Film Festival screening Feb 4th, but it’s a well-meaning work which looks at the idiosyncrasies behind a dysfunctional family trying to survive in a modern China. In Shanghai, Candy Wang (Vivian Wu) and her elder “Old Man Wang” brother (Yang Haoyu) do not see eye to eye over their old family home. It is destined to be torn down because everything else in the old neighbourhood is gone. The Golden Happiness Project claim to improve the lives of everyone, including the impoverished, for the better is falling on a lot of deaf ears–but at what cost? Money cannot buy everything, especially when concerning preserving memories.
Tag Archives: Asian Cinema
Dead Pigs is Not Your Typical Chinese New Year Movie
7 Feb
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Changing Faces with Asako I & II
5 Feb
By Ed Sum
(The Vintage Tempest)
Remaining shows at the Victoria Film Festival
February 5 | 9:15 PM | Capital 6
Victoria, BC
Presented by The Japan Foundation.
Tickets available online or at the door.
Idealized romances are a figment of the Hollywood imagination. To find that one true love is a subject for plenty of films, and in Asako I & II, this strange title suggests the title character (played with naïve innocence by Erika Karata) will see plenty of change in her life. She’s a doting figure who falls for Baku (Masahiro Higashide) like the best romantic tale from the golden age of cinema, complete with fireworks, and this drifter gives this film a plot.
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