Description

Angelica Lee, the award-winning star of The Eye who has seldom been seen on screen since, reunites with the Pang Brothers for Re-Cycle. Lee stars as a struggling young writer. When she discards the opening chapter to her latest work, she begins to be plagued with visions and events seemingly lifted from the pages of her rejected work, and it is not long before she is drawn entirely into a strange other world, a nightmarish alternate reality that serves as a repository for everything discarded and forgotten in ours.

It’s a good time to be a Pang. Not only do twin directors Oxide and Danny have a Hollywood remake of their breakthrough international hit The Eye in the works, but they’re also wrapping up work on their Sam Raimi-produced English-language debut, while Re-Cycle, their most recent Hong Kong film, is fresh off a stint in the official program at Cannes. Long hailed as a pair of the most visually talented directors in Asia, acclaimed for their work both as directors and editors (having filled the latter role on Andrew Lau’s Infernal Affairs), the duo may have here their most technically accomplished film to date. The world they create is vast and expansive, filled to the brim with apocalyptic images that flow in a sort of twisted dream logic. While some of the Pang’s earlier films have been accused of favouring style over substance, Re-Cycle stands as an argument that sometimes the two are one and the same, that the elements can be woven so tightly together that the boundaries between them are lost.

—Todd Brown

"I haven't seen this much spirit, overall superior artistry, LSD crazy creativity and eye-popping scenarios in a long time. Now this is a horror film!." - John Fallon, ARROW IN THE HEAD

Website

http://www.re-cyclethemovie.com/

Credits

Director: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Screenplay: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Cast: Angelica Lee, Ekin Cheng, Rain Li
Producers: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Distributor: Image Entertainment

Screens with...

10 Steps North american Premiere Hong kong 2006 | 4 min Cantonese language, English subtitles