All Tomorrow's Parties
a YU LIK-WAI picture
Synopsis
In the post-apocalyptic mid-21st century, the Gui Dao sect rules Asia… Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to Camp Prosperity so that their dissident minds can be re-educated. They soon discover that camp life is more than just propaganda, bureaucracy and trafficking. When the sect is suddenly overthrown, Zhuai and Mian experience total freedom for the first time in many years. When he falls for pretty Xuelan, he takes her and her small boy to a nearby deserted industrial city. They settle in an abandoned apartment and try to rediscover life’s small and quirky pleasures. Yet, they will have to face the bittersweet emotions of their difficult, newfound freedom.
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Press
Strong visually… The atmosphere is potently realised, and the notion that solitude is more likely to be fulfilling than partnership comes through loud and clear.
TIME OUT
The film has an impressive visual sweep…the post-apocalyptic look of All Tomorrow’s Parties is impressively rendered by Yu Lik Wai. Indeed it’s the distinctively grim milieux within the film: a dank gulag, a squalid flat, and a ruined industrial city, which linger in the mind
BBC
A timely blend of apocalyptic fantasy, political tract and solemn warning about the state we’re in…a fraught meditation on the 21st Century. Charged with a brooding fatalism typical of Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi meanderings, it’s a quietly impressive film
FILM FOUR
Festivals
& Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Un Certain Regard
Jury Prize
First Look Prize
BAFICI
Cinematography Award
Stockholm Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Sitges International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Cho Yong Won | |
|---|---|
| Diao Yi Nan | |
| Zhao Wei Wei | |
| Na Ren |
| Written and Directed by | Yu Lik Wai |
|---|---|
| Producers | Hengameh Panahi, Li Kit Ming |
| Associate Producers | Jia Zhang Ke, Moon Yong Sun, Patrick Siaretta, Chow Keung, |
| Cinematography | Lai Yiu Fai |
| Editing | Chow Keung |
| Sound | Ken Wong |
| Costume | Fu Jing Ping |
| Production Design | Zhao Xiao Yu |
| Music | Yoshihiro Hanno |
