Bends (過界) 11 years old

Flora Lau’s debut feature is a beautifully formed, subtle film that focuses on the lives of two people with very different prospects – a wealthy Hong Kong woman and her mainland Chinese chauffeur – both trying to cope with life’s unexpected dramas. Anna (Carina Lau) struggles to maintain appearances with her status-conscious friends after her husband mysteriously vanishes. Fai’s (Chen Kun) wife is heavily pregnant with their second child, has no health care entitlements in Hong Kong and cannot give birth in their homeland without incurring penalties for breaching the one-child policy. While their daily routines intersect, their fates only momentarily converge and Lau elegantly critiques the social contradictions at play by paralleling their predicaments rather than constructing drama between the two protagonists. (Source: LFF programme)

Credits

Carina Lau as Mrs. Li

Chen Kun as Fai

Stephanie Che as

Elena Kong as

Lawrence Cheng as Leo

Tian Yuan as Hoi

Bends Cast

Name	Character
Carina Lau She was 47, now 59 years old	as Mrs. Li
Chen Kun He was 37, now 48 years old	as Fai
Stephanie Che She was 38, now 49 years old
Elena Kong She was 44, now 55 years old
Lawrence Cheng He was 58, now 69 years old	as Leo
Tian Yuan She was 28, now 39 years old	as Hoi
Michelle Lo She was 51, now 62 years old

Bends Crew

Name	Department
Nansun Shi as Producer. She was 62 (now 73) years old	Production
Melissa Lee as Producer. She was 47 (now 58) years old	Production

Bends (11 years)

Release day: Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Runtime: 92 minutes