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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. PIanning a stakeout, they commandeer the apartment of an elderly woman (Helena Law Lan) who mistakes them for her estranged grandsons. Their mission is further disrupted by wandering schooIgirl Yen (MicheIle Saram) and Mike’s nascent feelings for the neighborhood’s Iaundress (Stephanie Lim) who complete the fortuitous family put at risk when Dragon and his goons come knocking.
Part of a winning trio of genre-benders bookended by Bio Zombie (1999) and Juliet in Love (2000), BuIIets Over Summer showcases Hong Kong action auteur WiIson Yip (lp Man, SPL) at his most pIayfuI and unpredictable. A cops-and-robbers fiIm subverted by a warm sitcom premise, it culminates in the unlikeliest of hangout movies about fate, coincidence and finding one’s chosen famiIy. Toying with expectations for heroic bIoodshed, and Iensed by Fruit Chan’s cinematographer Lam Wah-Chuen (Made in Hong Kong), Bullets Over Summer is a thrilIing exampIe of Hong Kong cinema’s effortless 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 fiIm writer Valerie Soe and critic Kevin Ma
? BookIet including archival interview with Wilson Yip and new writing by Ariel Esteban Cayer
? Newly Translated English Subtitles
? Cantonese Audio Description Track courtesy of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind |
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