Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (2015)
- Original title
- 香港三部曲
- Directed by
- Christopher Doyle
- Genre
- documentary film, drama film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- I
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film shows Hong Kong through the eyes of three age groups: children, young adults, and senior citizens. It mixes real people with staged scenes to create a reflective look at a city and its changing generations.
contemplativeellipticalhybridgenerationalportrait-likeobservationalurbanmeditative
What happens
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (Chinese: 香港三部曲：開門見山、愚公移山、後悔莫及) is a 2015 Hong Kong documentary-fictional hybrid film directed by Christopher Doyle. It's a portrait of Hong Kong told by three generations of real people: “preschooled” children, “preoccupied” young people, and “preposterous” senior citizens. The film had its world premiere in the "Contemporary World Cinema" section at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was described in the Toronto Globe and Mail as a "hybrid of fiction and documentary [which] doesn't use a traditional narrative, but it's not entirely abstract either – it's a contemplative sort of parallel storytelling, one where the elliptical space between fact and fiction combines to make a third creature that is no less true." It was subsequently released in theatres in Hong Kong on 28 September 2015 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement, and also released in theatres in Germany, Taiwan, Greece, and the United States. When it was released in the United States, Film Comment named it "Movie of the Week," and critic Jonathan Romney wrote that the "three linked semi-documentary vignettes about a location close to the director's heart—feels as much a community project as a personal statement. It isn't so much an example of the genre known as the 'city symphony'—it's more like a city jam." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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