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出走的决心 | Like A Rolling Stone

旦夕艺术片展映｜《出走的决心》中英双字幕加拿大首映 – Screened by AMoment Books｜LIKE A ROLLING STONE 李红一生都奉献给家庭，恪守“好女儿”、“好妻子”、“好母亲”的角色。如今，她即将迎来人生中新的身份——外婆。正当她准备安于一成不变的生活时，一封突如其来的高中同学会邀请唤醒了她内心尘封已久的青春梦想。她小心翼翼地提出想参加聚会，却遭到丈夫孙强的强烈反对。多年来被压抑的问题随之爆发。孙强有一套固守不变的家庭幸福定义，并固执地捍卫自己所谓的“正确”。为了怀孕的女儿，李红再次压抑自己的愿望，投入到“好外婆”的新角色中。然而沉重的家务与看不到尽头的生活让她陷入抑郁。在绝望中，她开始意识到，人生也许还有另一种可能。她悄悄策划一段新的旅程，在过程中一点点找回那个真正的自己。 LI Hong has dedicated her life to her family, dutifully fulfilling her roles as a good daughter, wife, and mother. Soon, she is set to become a grandmother. Just as LI Hong is about to resign herself to a stagnant life, … Read more

White Snake

The legend begins. Produced by Light Chaser Animation, GKIDS’ “WHITE SNAKE” is a mythic epic conceived as the prequel to one of the most ancient and enduring stories of Chinese folk lore — full of demons, deadly beasts, wuxia action and star-crossed romance. One day, a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a … Read more

VIFF 2024: Black Dog

Guan Hu’s film, winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, tells the story of two discontented souls and the bond that grows between them. The action takes place in 2008, as the Beijing Summer Olympics approach; following a stint in prison, Lang (Eddie Peng) returns to his hometown to find that it’s been … Read more

VIFF 2021: Bipolar

Reminiscent of its monochromatic brethren Dead Man and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Queena Li’s Bipolar is an odyssey all its own: a buddy comedy featuring a broken-hearted musician and technicolour lobster that sends the Orpheus myth crashing through the looking glass. In the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on a luxury pilgrimage, a … Read more

The Last Emperor

We are tipping our hat to an undisputed icon of Italian cinema, the controversial late auteur Bernardo Bertolucci, with a screening of his lush, challenging, multilayered epic period drama THE LAST EMPEROR – a film that won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated. The power and scope of the … Read more

The Farewell

Writer-director Lulu Wang mined her own life experience for the premise behind the family drama THE FAREWELL, which has emerged as one of this summer’s breakout indie critical and commercial hits. Rapper-turned-actress Awkwafina – who proved her comedic chops in both Crazy Rich Asians and Ocean’s 8 –, and has now earned a Golden Globe nod … Read more

Shadow

With SHADOW, director Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) once again pushes the boundaries of “wuxia” action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated. In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, … Read more

Resurrection

With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary Chinese writer-director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT) takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure cinematic dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that … Read more

Phantom Thread

In light of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER being one of the defining titles of 2025 (it is currently nominated for a whopping 9 Golden Globes!), we thought the time was right to turn our collective lens back on another one of our favourite films of his, the seasonally appropriate romantic drama PHANTOM THREAD. … Read more

Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood

“That was the best acting I’ve ever seen in my whole life.” Set in Los Angeles in 1969, at the the height of hippy Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino‘s ninth feature film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) was nominated for a slew of Oscars, and ended up with a win for Brad Pitt (Best Supporting Actor). … Read more

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