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The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most progressive artists. In our landmark home on The Mall in central London, we invite artists and audiences to interrogate what it means to live in our world today, with a genre-fluid programme ...
A low-rank gangster considers leaving the triad when he falls in love with his cousin.
These characters are going down, but they’re going to go down in visually operatic ways. The doom and longing blend in the final scene of As Tears Go By, set in a police-station parking lot that features orange translucent banners softly blowing in the breeze. Fly makes the worst of his many bad decisions (I won’t spoil the details); Wah ...
In Hong Kong’s ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, a small-time mob enforcer finds himself torn between a burgeoning romance with his ailing, beautiful cousin and his loyalty to his loose cannon partner in crime, whose reckless attempts to make a name for himself unleash a spiral of violence.
As Tears Go By is a film directed by Wong Kar-Wai with Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Alex Man, Jacky Cheung .... Year: 1988. Original title: Wong gok ka moon (As Tears Go By).
Jul 19, 2021 · Starting with one of his first directorial efforts, the 1988 action-drama “As Tears Go By”, you notice the way the filmmaker weaved together a story of two brothers, about betrayal, loyalty and growing up, while also maintaining a unique audiovisual approach, influenced by the works of film noir as well as the diversity of Hong Kong and its ...
The film is a tad predictable at times, but thanks to strong acting performances and sharp, innovative direction, As Tears Go By is a compelling ninety-four minutes of star-driven entertainment. Neither self-indulgent nor overstuffed, As Tears Go By is easily one of the director's most accessible films to date.
