BLUE ISLAND
OPENS AT METROGRAPH JULY 29
Metrograph is pleased to announce the run of Blue Island,
starting July 29.
Chan’s second feature uses elements of documentary and fictional reconstruction-including visions of the possible future-to describe the Hong Kong of today and tomorrow, a city that’s been wracked by protests against the fading of the autonomy promised by the “One Country, Two Systems” deal struck with its 1997 Handover to the People’s Republic of China. A sui generis, boots-on-the-ground portrait of the city and its disillusioned-but-unbowed people, in which contemporary student protestors recreate the struggles of another generation, including the citywide strikes of 1967, suggesting not only the cyclical nature of history but the long deferral of revolutionary change.
