Autumn Moon
Director: Clara Law
1992 / 108min / DCP
The fourth film in Law’s “emigration series,” released two years after Farewell China and in the midst of a mass exodus of Hong Kongers looking to get out before the 1997 Handover, Autumn Moon evokes the anxiety of this moment and explores the price of cultural displacement through the intertwined stories of Tokio (Nagase Masatoshi, of Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train), a Japanese tourist visiting the Fragrant Harbor, and Pui-wai (Li Pui-wai), a 15-year-old preparing to immigrate with her family, the two forming an unlikely bond thanks in no small part to Pui-wai’s grandmother’s mastery of the intricacies of Cantonese cooking. A film of transcendent tranquility, and a very moving portrait of a city on the cusp of a massive tectonic shift.
2K restoration
Distributor: Revenante Films
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