On the global festival circuit, Yu Lik-wai is probably best known as Jia Zhang-ke’s cinematographer – The World, Still Life, 24 City – so it shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that Plastic City is a damn good-looking piece of contemporary cinema, with stunning HD cinematography from Yai Liu Fai. More unusual, for a film made by a renowned cinematographer, is the wealth of ideas bursting out of “Plastic City”, which has more on its mind in any given five-minute sequence than most films do over two hours.
A Chinese gangster epic set in São Paulo, Brazil, Plastic City is by its very nature a bastardized child of the new global economy – a cultural mash-up involving everything from bootleg sneakers, US ‘interests’, Shakespearean family ties, and favela violence. All of it topped off with the thundering beats of Mexico’s Nortec Collective, and the curious pleasure of hearing the great Anthony Wong speak his lines in Portuguese. Plastic City is as confounding and sprawling a film as you’ll see this year, but few have come closer to capturing the 21st Century alive.
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ORIGINAL TITLE
Plastic City
ENGLISH TITLE
Plastic City
SELECTION: Friction
COUNTRY: Brazil, China, Japan
LANGUAGE: Portuguese, Mandarin and Japanese
SUBTITLES: English
PROD. YEAR: 2008
RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes
DIRECTOR: Yu Lik-wai
WRITER: Fernando Bonassi, Yu Lik-wai
PRODUCER: Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane, Chow Keung, Jia Zhang-Ke, Yuji Sadai, Siuming Tsui, Debora Ivanov, Gabriel Lacerda
PHOTO: Yiu-Fai Lai
PRODUCTION: Gullane Filmes, Xstream Picture
CAST: Jeff Chen, Huang Yi, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Tainá Müller
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