A Hong Kong jewel in Cannes
Active for more than 25 years, an eminent figure in Hong Kong cinema, Soi Cheang achieved international stature after his brilliant thriller Limbo, released in 2023 in France. A sign of this recognition is his new film Twilight of the Warriors: Murato In will be presented in a midnight session at Cannes Film Festival 2024.
In development since the 2000s – when John Woo and Johnnie To would co-direct it – the film only went into production in November 2021. Finally finished, it will be released in China and Hong Kong starting May 1st, and will therefore make the his appearance had its European premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
The return of Sammo Hung
Twilight of the Warriors: Murato is set in the Kowloon Citadel, a Chinese enclave in Hong Kong with buildings so dense they barely let in light, before its destruction in the early 1990s. An ideal setting to tell a story of triads and a spectacular and violent manhunt. while you do homage to martial arts cinema in all its forms.
Given the talent assembled in front of Soi Cheang’s camera, including Hong Kong film legend Sammo Hung, Louis Koo, Raymond Lam and Richie Jen, and given the impressive images from the trailer (video at the top of the article) we can move forward without too much risk to say Twilight of the Warriors: Murato it should be an event on the Croisette and a real treat for all fans of the genre. Regarding his selection, Thierry Frémaux stated:
Midnight screenings are always a great way to welcome a cinema to Cannes that, a few years ago, we might have thought had no place in Cannes. But who really has it? For example, Soi Cheang’s Hong Kong fighting film “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In” is a genre film which, like Seung’s other film “I, The Executioner”, Wan Ryoo, which is a Korean, are two genre films that are also great directorial films. Cannes has never distanced itself from genre cinema and has always believed that the great directors of crime, sword and comedy films were also great directors.
Source: Cine Serie
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