1978 · folk · rural · myth
White and Black
Directed by Ann Hui50m1978
The fifth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption
Our read: White and Black (1978) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive folk · rural · myth entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured folk / rural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
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