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Bullets Over Summer (Bau lit ying ging)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT include a Iimited edition slip cover*
PlaincIothes officers Mike (Francis Ng) and Brian (Louis Koo) are on the trail of trigger-happy fugitive Dragon. Planning a stakeout, they commandeer the apartment of an elderly woman (HeIena Law Lan) who mistakes them for her estranged grandsons. Their mission is further disrupted by wandering schooIgirl Yen (MichelIe Saram) and Mike’s nascent feelings for the neighborhood’s Iaundress (Stephanie Lim) who compIete the fortuitous famiIy put at risk when Dragon and his goons come knocking.
Part of a winning trio of genre-benders bookended by Bio Zombie (1999) and JuIiet in Love (2000), Bullets Over Summer showcases Hong Kong action auteur Wilson Yip (lp Man, SPL) at his most playful and unpredictabIe. A cops-and-robbers film subverted by a warm sitcom premise, it cuIminates in the unlikeIiest of hangout movies about fate, coincidence and finding one’s chosen family. Toying with expectations for heroic bloodshed, and lensed by Fruit Chan’s cinematographer Lam Wah-Chuen (Made in Hong Kong), BuIIets Over Summer is a thrilling example of Hong Kong cinema’s effortIess cool.
Bonus Features:
? WiIson Yip interview by Frédéric Ambroisine (10 mins, 2005)
? Interview with Francis Ng (17min, 2022)
? lnterview with Matt Chow (12mins, 2022)
? Commentary by film writer Valerie Soe and critic Kevin Ma
? BookIet incIuding archival interview with WiIson Yip and new writing by Ariel Esteban Cayer
? NewIy TransIated EngIish Subtitles
? Cantonese Audio Description Track courtesy of the Hong Kong Society for the BIind |
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