Archive - 8th Five Flavours Film Festival
Exiled
Awards and festivals
Film description
A gangster film with a soul of a Western, set in Macao just before it came under Chinese jurisdiction. To gathers a bunch of his favourite actors to tell a story about honour, revenge, and the true male friendship. About the world in which law officers are intruders, and a man's fate depends on a toss of a coin.
Stylized shooting sequences are dazzling – the director develops the ideas from "The Mission," making the characters freeze in still poses, turning them into figures on the check board of life and death. "Exiled" is a spectacular, visually stunning work, a pure cinematic experience. It is a homage to the Westerns of Leone and Peckinpah, and at the same time their continuation.
Marcin Krasnowolski
Johnnie To
Born 1955. Director, screenwriter, producer, author of films belonging to many genres and styles, best known as the master of action cinema. Awarded at numerous festivals, a cult artist and a role model for filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, appreciated for combining sharp social observations with dynamic image and unconventional narration.
1980 Bik seoi hon saan dyut meng gam / The Enigmatic Case
1989 Ah-long dik gu si / All About Ah-long
1995 Mou mei san taam / Loving You
1998 Bohater nie umiera nigdy / Chan sam ying hung / A Hero Never Dies
2001 Chuen jik sat sau / Fulltime Killer
2003 Daai zek lou / Running on Karma
2005 Wybór mafii / Hak se wui / Election
2007 Psychodetektyw / San taam / Mad Detective
2012 Kartel / Du zhan / Drug War
