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11 January 2012 #409

Welcome back to the Fridae Movie Club! We hope you notice and approve of the slight redecorations we've made to the Fridae website design.

Our pick for the week is The Great Magician, a lighthearted yet very clever film by Hong Kong writer-director Derek Yee, which takes recent films like The Prestige and The Illusionist and turns them into a comic farce while retaining all the cleverness. The film reunites Tony Leung and Zhou Xun, as the titular illusionist who must rescue the love of his life from the clutches of a bumbling Chinese warlord.

Contraband continues the recent invasion of Hollywood by Iceland's talented filmmakers. In this remake of an award-winning Icelandic film, Mark Wahlberg plays a reformed shipping smuggler who must make one last big haul to protect his wife and save his brother-in-law from certain harm.

A Happy Event is a dramedy that offers an honest, politically incorrect, no -holds-barred view of pregnancy and child-rearing. We recommend it for fans of experimental films with odd structures and unconventional storytelling.

I Spit on Your Grave is the remake of the original notorious rape and revenge film from 1978. Find out if the remake can still shock in an era where Hollywood and Korean cinema have turned torture porn and revenge fantasies into a spectacle and an art!

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

The Great Magician

The Great Magician is a rare Hong Kong film that is actually as clever and deep as it appears and does it without foreshadowing and spoonfeeding on one end and overdramatic posturing on the other. It would not be too wrong to say that Derek Yee has transported 2006's The Illusionist to China's post Yuan Shikai warlord era and mashed it with Michael Hui's 1972 farce The Great Warlord. The art of the long con is celebrated in The Great Magician.

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