Screenings:
Friday, July 8, 2011, 7 pm
Sunday, July 10, 2011, 2 pm
Donnie Yen (Blade II, Ip Man, Hero) stars in this gripping martial-arts blockbuster set in the bustling metropolis of Hong Kong in 1905. The revolutionary movement has spread throughout China, but the Qing dynasty will do anything to hold on to its power. As Sun Yat-Sen prepares for a historic meeting that will shape the future of the country, a motley crew is entrusted to protect him from deadly assassins determined to kill him. Winner of eight Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Film, and featuring an hour-long battle sequence unlike anything attempted before, it’s a pivotal action epic hailed as “a satisfying mix of politics, personal sacrifice and death-or-glory combat” (Richard Kuipers, Variety). Description courtesy of Indomina Releasing. (dir.: Teddy Chen, 2009, 139 min., Cantonese with English subtitles)