Keeping in step
At the last Hong Kong film festival of its kind, our film reviewer discovers that Asian cinema is marking time
LESS than three months before the communists take over Hong Kong, the 21st Hong Kong International Film Festival has just ended with only two of its 200 films made in China. Of these, only a documentary, “No 16 Barkhor South Street”, was originally invited. What would have been the second Chinese entry, “In Expectation”, fell victim to the last-minute cancellations that have bedevilled the festival's Chinese selections for the past four years.
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