The Hand - Gong Li
The Hand - Gong Li
The Hand (2004)

Presented by ACMI in association with Sydney Film Festival, NFSA, QAGOMA and Mercury CX

The Hand (director's cut)

Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | 2004 | Unclassified (15+)
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Sun 21 Feb – Wed 24 Feb 2021

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Gong Li and Chang Chen star in this hypnotic tale of obsession, repression, and class divisions.

Exquisitely rendered.

Slant Magazine

Like In the Mood for Love, The Hand is set in the hazy Hong Kong of the 1960s, but its characters couldn’t be more different from the earlier film’s restrained, haunted lovers. Originally conceived for the omnibus film Eros, which included Equilibrium (Steven Soderbergh) and The Dangerous Thread of Things (Michelangelo Antonioni), the film — presented in this retrospective for the first time in its extended cut — tells the tale of Zhang (Chang Chen), a shy tailor’s assistant enraptured by a mysterious client, Miss Hua (Gong Li).

The Hand finds Wong Kar Wai continuing to transition from the frenetic, energised style of his earlier films into a register that is lush with romantic grandeur. On release, the critic Roger Ebert said of the film, “it stays with me. The characters expand in my memory and imagination.”

– Kristy Matheson, Director of Film Programs

Format: DCP
Language: In Mandarin with English subtitles
Source: Jet Tone Films
Courtesy: Jet Tone Films
Runtime: 56 min

Event duration

56 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

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