Year: 1982 | Country: Hong Kong | Language: Cantonese | Length: 111 min.

Fri 8/17, 5:55 | Thu 8/23, 9:10 | Mon 8/27, 4:15

Ann Hui's remarkable film struck a resonant chord with Hong Kong residents upon its release. With its subject of the Vietnam territory on the verge of an impending hand-over to the mainland, audiences were quick to recognize the metaphor and flocked to the theatres. George Lam stars as a journalist covering the war in Vietnam who gets caught up in the lives of the locals. Andy Lau plays a young Vietnamese man singularly focused on saving enough money to enable himself to be smuggled out of the country. As both a metaphor for the concerns of a switch to the Communist rule and melodrama of the first degree, Boat People is an important film that reflected and enhanced its period and place. Directed by Ann Hui. With George Lam, Cora Miao, Andy Lau, Season Ma.

16mm. Print from New Yorker Films, New York.

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