The boy turns to thieving to support Cheong-shingâs gambling habit, and heâs eventually sent to a detention center, where a visit from his father ends in sudden violence. Ling leaves, and father and son (the picâs original Chinese title) are alone. Still, the boyâs loyalties are with his father and, after he spills the beans about mom, she gets a terrible beating. Turns out dad, Chow Cheong-shing (Aaron Kwok), a once-handsome ladiesâ man, has been abusing her. ![]() Story is largely told through the eyes of a young boy (Gow Ian Iskander) who returns home one day to find his mom, Ling (Charlie Young), packing for a quick exit. After world preeming at Pusan, with its European bow a day later at the Rome Film Fest, pic goes out in Hong Kong and China Dec. ![]() Father-and-son drama, set in a timeless, rural Malaysia populated by Chinese characters, is a highly tuned, beautiful looking artifact that’s way too long and repetitive at more than 2½ hours, but engenders respect for its precision and ambition.ĭedicated to âAll My Students, Malaysia and Hong Kong,â pic is clearly a work from the heart, and even starts with an intertitle from Tam himself hoping auds will just sit back and surrender to the experience. ![]() After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.Įighties Hong Kong helmer-turned-editor Patrick Tam makes an extraordinary return to the director’s chair after 17 years with After This Our Exile.
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