SF FILM FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY : Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg
I'm so glad I took a chance on this movie. I just put my faith in the film board of selectors when they said this would be a film highlight. This director/screenwriter has won best director/screenwriter for the last two Hong Kong Film Festivals. This also won best picture. I told myself when the plot got obvious or boring I was going to go get a soda. It had great editing and moved very quickly it was smooth like butter in terms of the story-line and editing. It was a great thriller and love story with some nice twists at the end. I enjoyed the aspiring artists story-line.
Description
Kinetic action and a mind-bending plot highlight this star-studded film about a counterfeiting network directed by Infernal Affairs (2002) writer Felix Chong. The film begins in the mid-’90s as detectives extradite Lee Man (Aaron Kwok) from a Thai prison. They believe he can assist in their search for his rumored associate, a mysterious mastermind named Painter (Chow Yun-fat). Unfolding in vivid flashbacks, Project Gutenberg unveils Lee’s history with the expert counterfeiter and their quest to make a perfect replica of the $100 bill, up to the breathtaking reveal of Painter’s final and most masterful forgery.
“Chow Yun-fat channels some of his most iconic screen work as a suave, sophisticated, sharp-dressed gentleman criminal, and Aaron Kwok continues his mid-career creativity with another vaguely unsavory character in Felix Chong’s throwback crime thriller Project Gutenberg.” – Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter
Director
Felix Chong
Felix Chong made his mark as a screenwriter before turning to directing, sharing a Hong Kong Film Award with Alan Mak for their screenplay for Infernal Affairs (2002) and writing other acclaimed scripts, including two sequels to Infernal Affairs, Confession of Pain (2006), and Overheard (2009). Chang made his directing debut in another collaboration with Mak in 2005 with Moonlight in Tokyo. Once a Gangster (2010) was his first solo feature, for which he won a second Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Director
P.S. I had to scour the internet for a picture of the female lead.
Every poster had macho action shots although the love story of the
struggling artists is just as big of a part.
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