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South China Morning Post
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong Film Awards 2025 predictions: Twilight of the Warriors, The Last Dance and more
Even if the filmmakers behind The Last Dance and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In were to shock everyone and take home zero trophies at the end of the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) ceremony this Sunday, it is safe to assume they would still feel like winners. Advertisement Rounding out the best picture race are Philip Yung Tsz-kwong's haunting family drama Papa (with 11 nods), based on a real-life case of killing; Adam Wong Sau-ping's The Way We Talk (seven), about a deaf woman's self-discovery; and Ray Yeung's All Shall Be Well (five), which highlights a loophole in same-sex couples' legal rights in Hong Kong. Below, Post film editor Edmund Lee gives his predictions for who will win in the major categories, while also reflecting on who should win. Best film Who will win – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Raymond Lam Fung in a still from Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. Photo: Media Asia Films In what is looking like a toss-up between the two biggest films in contention at the annual showpiece event, Twilight of the Warriors may just be the slight favourite among industry professionals.
South China Morning Post
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
The Way We Talk: Chung Suet-ying shines as a deaf woman finding herself
Published: 5:45pm, 19 Feb 2025 4.5/5 stars In his six films to date, Hong Kong writer-director Adam Wong Sau-ping has repeatedly revealed a soft spot for protagonists who are trying to understand themselves and find their place in the world. It was evident from a teenage boy's discovery of his sexuality in Wong's debut When Beckham Met Owen ; the street-dancing dreams of university students in his breakout hit The Way We Dance ; and the struggles of performing artists in navigating Hong Kong's urban spaces in The Way We Keep Dancing . But none of those come close to matching the immersive sense of soul-searching he evokes in The Way We Talk , his latest feature. This deeply humane drama about a trio of young deaf people is Wong's best film yet by some distance. Stepping into a big debate in deaf culture – the choice between using cochlear implants (surgically implanted electronic devices that improve hearing) or sign language – the film offers an articulate account of a deaf woman's confusion amid advocation from both sides. Chung Suet-ying, who was named best actress at the 2024 Golden Horse Awards in Taipei for her part, plays Sophie, a university graduate in actuarial science and the face of an awareness campaign for cochlear implants (CI), for which her mother (Yam Yuen Yee-man) signed her up shortly after she lost her hearing as a toddler.
