Our Time Will Come
Description
Ann Hui’s moving and suspenseful drama showcases the heroic activities undertaken by resistance fighters during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong from 1941–44. The guerillas first aim is to ferry nearly 100 leftist intellectuals to safety, including Mao Tun (Guo Tao), one of modern China’s most celebrated novelists. He’s staying at the home of Mrs. Fong and her daughter Lan (Zhou Xun), a teacher. Lan ends up assisting in the writer’s getaway, and her grace under fire leads underground leader Blackie (an extremely charismatic Eddie Peng) to recruit her. As the living situation in Hong Kong becomes increasingly untenable, Lan’s involvement with the rebel organization grows. When her mother impulsively also agrees to help the cause and encounters great jeopardy, the film’s message of ordinary citizens rising up against grave oppression reaches a stirring pitch. Hui has assembled an impressive international cast to bring this story to the screen, reuniting with her Simple Life star Deanie Ip who is unforgettable as Mrs. Fong. Our Time Will Come impressively presses home the importance of remembering one’s history and the heroism of everyday people.
Though Ann Hui is best known as one of the Hong Kong New Wave’s most critically acclaimed directors, she is also a producer, writer, and actress. She began her work in cinema as an assistant to the director King Hu and later made several short documentaries for television. Her first film The Secret was made in 1979 and won international acclaim. Though she has made forays into action films and comedies, she is known for telling socially conscious stories, often about cultural displacement. Her films All About Love, A Simple Life, and The Golden Era showed in SFFILM’s Hong Kong Cinema programs in 2011, 2012, and 2014, respectively. In 2012, she was given a lifetime achievement award at the Asian Film Awards.
Film Details
Language Mandarin
Year 2017
Runtime 130
Country Hong Kong/China
Director Ann Hui
Producer Roger Lee, Stephen Lam, Ann Hui
Writer Ho Kei-ping
Editor Mary Stephen
Cinematographer Nelson Yu
Music Joe Hisaishi
Cast Zhou Xun, Eddie Peng, Wallace Huo
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