Bends (2013)

ALL 10/16/2013 (zh) Drama 92 Min
  • Release
    10/16/2013
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    53%
  • Original title
    過界
  • Original language
    zh
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Flora Lau’s debut feature is a beautifully formed, subtle film that focuses on the lives of two people with very different prospects – a wealthy Hong Kong woman and her mainland Chinese chauffeur – both trying to cope with life’s unexpected dramas. Anna (Carina Lau) struggles to maintain appearances with her status-conscious friends after her husband mysteriously vanishes. Fai’s (Chen Kun) wife is heavily pregnant with their second child, has no health care entitlements in Hong Kong and cannot give birth in their homeland without incurring penalties for breaching the one-child policy. While their daily routines intersect, their fates only momentarily converge and Lau elegantly critiques the social contradictions at play by paralleling their predicaments rather than constructing drama between the two protagonists. (Source: LFF programme)

  1. Flora Lau

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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Bends (2013) 92 Min

ALL 10/16/2013 (zh)
Drama
  • Release 10/16/2013
  • Production
  • Original title 過界
  • zh
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Flora Lau’s debut feature is a beautifully formed, subtle film that focuses on the lives of two people with very different prospects – a wealthy Hong Kong woman and her mainland Chinese chauffeur – both trying to cope with life’s unexpected dramas. Anna (Carina Lau) struggles to maintain appearances with her status-conscious friends after her husband mysteriously vanishes. Fai’s (Chen Kun) wife is heavily pregnant with their second child, has no health care entitlements in Hong Kong and cannot give birth in their homeland without incurring penalties for breaching the one-child policy. While their daily routines intersect, their fates only momentarily converge and Lau elegantly critiques the social contradictions at play by paralleling their predicaments rather than constructing drama between the two protagonists. (Source: LFF programme)

  1. Flora Lau

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Shi Nansun, Yu Tsang, Melissa Lee, Ken Hui

    Producer