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Keening Woman

A Window on Asian Cinema

Love/Romance · Impaired · Spirituality  

  • CountryHong Kong,China
  • Production Year2013
  • Running Time114min
  • Format HDCAM
  • ColorColor
Program Note
This is the second feature by Rita Hui, a female indie-film director of Hong Kong, who as a video artist, has been earnestly exploring the human mind. In this film, the mysterious communion between reality and spirit is explored, through a woman who communicates with the dead. Cotton (Michelle Wai) is a keening woman, who consoles the deceased with dance and wailing, at the funeral parlor where she works. The spirit, Ling (Mitsu Hana) always stays by her. Cotton’s wheelchair-bound boyfriend, Hang (Ryan Lau), understands and loves Cotton as a soul mate. They have bizarre experiences, coming and going, to and from, between reality and fantasy, in the Luo Feng Mountain. Surrealistic seascapes, landscape paintings, and fantasy scenes are often shown in the film, harmonizing with the weird, high-pitch string instrument’s vibrations, leading us into the unknown world of spirits. The director’s sincere reflection on the underworld and the world of spirits imbued this ‘audience friendly experimental film’ with unique and peculiar atmosphere. (KANG Naeyoung)
Director
Director
Rita HUI
Video artist, director, producer and instructor at Hong Kong’s City University, Rita Hui is a prominent figure on the city’s independent art scene. Among her shorts and video works are Ah Ming (1996), Subway (1997) Invisible City (Wall) (1998), Alice in Wonderland (1999) and her feature filmography includes Dead Slowly (2009).
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Credit
  • Director Rita HUI 리타 후이
  • Producer Wen CHANG, Venus WONG, Tze Ki HO
  • Cast WAI Michelle, Hana Mitsu, LUI Ryan, KO Han Man, LEUNG Wing Chung
  • Screenplay Rita HUI, Yuejin HO
  • Cinematography Kubbie TSOI
  • Production Design Honkaz FUNG
  • Editor Wai Nap WONG, Rita HUI
  • Music Samson YOUNG
  • Production Company Rabbit Travelogue
    Hong Kong, China Flat A3, 11/F, Tung Nam Factory Bldg., 40 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    tzeki.ho@gmail.com