Floating Life
Director: Clara Law
1996 / 95min / 4K DCP
Following on the theme of impending exodus in Autumn Moon, the fish-out-of-water tale Floating Life is a portrait of one family, the Chans, scattered by the winds of change across three continents. Father and mother (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee) set out to start a new life near daughter Bing (Annie Yip), in the Sydney suburbs where she lives, while their eldest son Gar Ming (Anthony Wong) stays in Hong Kong waiting on emigration papers; eldest sister Yen (Annette Shun Wah), married to a German, based in Munich, and watching her daughter drift away from any connection with Chinese culture, joins the party in Australia, only to be reprimanded by Bing. Attentive to the cultural as well as atmospheric distinctions in its wildly disparate locations, Law’s tender tragicomedy was awarded the Silver Leopard at the 1996 Locarno International Film Festival.
4K restoration by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Distributor: Revenante Films
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