More 'Infernal Affairs' at Chinese Film Festival
Advertiser Staff
The third annual Chinese Film Festival continues at the Doris Duke Theatre, at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, through Dec. 19. The series is presented in conjunction with the Hawaii Chinese Civic Association.
Admission is $7 general, $6 for those 62 and older and students, $5 for museum members.
532-8768. The films:
The prequel to the hit "Infernal Affairs" makes its American premiere at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In Hong Kong, Chen Ying Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads and Lau Kin Ming has become a mole for the triads in the police force.
7:30 p.m. today
The final chapter of the Hong Kong trilogy makes its U.S. premiere. The film begins where "Infernal Affairs" ended: Yan, the police force's mole in the triads, is dead, and it appears that Ming, the triads' mole in the police force, has destroyed the triads.
7:30 p.m. Saturday
A sort of Chinese "Cinema Paradiso." It begins in present-day Beijing with a disastrous encounter between Dabing and Ling Ling that sends Ling Ling to the hospital. Dabing, in Ling Ling's home to feed her fish, starts reading her diary, which tells a story that reminds him of his childhood passion for the movies.
1 and 4 p.m. today and Saturday; 1, 4 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Monday; 1 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; 1 p.m. Wednesday; and 1 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday
A look at the effects of modernity and globalization on twentysomethings from China's remote provinces who come to live and work at Beijing's World Park.
1, 4 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 and 11; 1 and 7:30 Dec. 13 and 14
An epic journey during the Cultural Revolution, based on the international best-seller. Two students are sent to a mountainous region for Maoist re-education. With the young seamstress granddaughter of the local tailor, they find a cache of forbidden books of classic Western literature, including the work of Honoré de Balzac.
1 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15; 1, 4 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16-18; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19
