Crime thriller Limbo wins best picture in 2021 Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards; the late Benny Chan named best director for Raging Fire
Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s nihilistic crime thriller Limbo has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2021 by a panel of critics, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society announced on January 17.Marking something of a triumphant return to home soil by Cheang, whose lucrative if critically divisive spell in mainland China saw him direct a trio of special-effects-laden Monkey King films from 2014 to 2018, the black-and-white film Limbo stars Lam Ka-tung and Mason Lee as a pair of police detectives on the hunt…
Soi Cheang Pou-soi’s nihilistic crime thriller Limbo has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2021 by a panel of critics, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society announced on January 17.Marking something of a triumphant return to home soil by Cheang, whose lucrative if critically divisive spell in mainland China saw him direct a trio of special-effects-laden Monkey King films from 2014 to 2018, the black-and-white film Limbo stars Lam Ka-tung and Mason Lee as a pair of police detectives on the hunt…