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Blue Island (2022 film)

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Blue Island
Japanese promotional poster
Directed byChan Tze-woon
Written byChan Tze-woon
Produced byPeter Yam
CinematographySzeto Yat-lui
Edited byChan Tze-woon
Silen Wu
Music byJacklam Ho Tsz Yeung
Guyshawn Wong
Production
company
Blue Island Production Company Limited
Release date
  • 26 January 2022 (2022-01-26) (IFFR)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
English

Blue Island (Chinese: 憂鬱之島) is a 2022 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Chan Tze-woon.[1] It focuses on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The film won the Best International Feature Documentary Award at the 2022 Hot Docs Festival.[2]

Reception

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The film received positive reviews in Variety and The New York Times.[3][4]

Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com rated the film 2.5 stars out of 5, writing that it "features a lot of great footage, but a lot of it either doesn’t hang together or flow seamlessly from one episodic scene to the next."[5]

References

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  1. ^ Frater, Patrick (27 April 2022). "Hong Kong Protest Documentary 'Blue Island' Picked up for North America Ahead of Hot Docs Debut". Variety. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  2. ^ Punter, Jenny (7 May 2022). "'Blue Island,' 'Geographies of Solitude' Win Top Jury Honors at Hot Docs". Variety. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  3. ^ Kuipers, Richard (27 July 2022). "'Blue Island' Review: A Cleverly Constructed Documentary Revisits the 2019-2020 Hong Kong Protest Movement". Variety. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  4. ^ Kenigsberg, Ben (28 July 2022). "'Blue Island' Review: In Hong Kong, the Past Is Present". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  5. ^ Abrams, Simon (29 July 2022). "Blue Island". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
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