22nd Annual New York Asian Film Festival
4K RESTORATION OF DIRECTOR’S CUT
East Coast Premiere
Nomad (Director's Cut)
烈火青春（導演版）
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE DIRECTOR'S CUT
Four attractive souls, equal parts rich and working class, form a tragic romantic bond of ennui, anomie, absurdity, love, and violence in (Wong Kar Wai mentor) Patrick Tam’s genre-defying Hong Kong New Wave watershed. Wealthy Louis (Leslie Cheung) and his cousin Kathy (Pat Ha) hook up with Tomato (Cecilia Yip) and Pong (Kent Tong) amidst various urban antics. Harkening to Japan’s sun tribe trend of the 50’s, they mostly hang out and indulge in hedonistic pursuits until an ex-revolutionary shows up and sets the tone even more off kilter. A transcendent example of cinema at its most freewheeling, this treatise on bohemian upheaval seduces with its garish romcom tropes and avant-garde leanings, only to turn the entire affair upside down with wild plot twists and kinetic set-pieces. Omnisciently teetering between calculated camp and art house of a unique pedigree, this is an irrepressible must-see masterpiece.
Director: Patrick Tam
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Cecilia Yip, Kent Tong, Pat Ha
Languages: Cantonese with English Subtitles
1982; 94 min.