Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week (April 19-25), from Isle of Dogs to Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation about dogs, a documentary on the famous Japanese composer, a grim drama about a Russian family and bureaucracy, a Chinese art forger in Shenzhen, and a quietly scary thriller are this week’s top picks
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1. Isle of Dogs
3. Loveless
Directed by father-daughter pair Yu Haibo and Kiki Yu Tianqi, this portrait of a peasant-turned-painter who churns out replicas of renowned Western paintings in a Shenzhen village offers an unexpectedly profound look at the purpose of art-making, as well as the devastating reality of today’s global marketplace. (Opens on April 21)
Giant predators roam the world in this wonderfully suspenseful thriller, directed by John Krasinski from a deadly efficient screenplay he co-wrote with genre specialists Bryan Woods and Scott Beck. Krasinski also stars opposite his real-life spouse, Emily Blunt, as parents who must maintain absolute silence to survive. (Now showing)
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