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

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)

Trailer

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