L: Change the World
Johnnie To’s pickpocket drama Sparrow, with Simon Yam and Kelly Lin, looked for a long time like the film that To was destined to always be working on but never completing. And now that it’s finally done it’s looking like the film that I am destined never to see on the big screen - thanks to forces outside of my control I have now missed multiple screenings of the film at each of the Berlin Film Festival, the Hong Kong Filmart, the Udine Far East Film Festival and now the Cannes Marche Du Film despite Sparrow and I both attending each. Sigh. Got my fingers crossed that it makes it to the Toronto International Film Festival but the way things have been going my house will probably explode the day it screens if it does.
Anyway the point of this is that the final theatrical trailer for To’s latest is now out there, looking good, and making me curse my rotten luck. You’ll find it embedded int he Twitch Player below the break.
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Reader Comments
paolone_fr 05/28/2008 @ 3:21am
...Sparrow is indeed a song of freedom and love. To stages a coreographed ballet of bodies and feelings, with his light touch. Magnificent musical score. Waiting for a rerun, I have to say that this film leaves the smell of a masterpiece in grace and lightness…
Milkyway 05/28/2008 @ 8:03am
the music in the 2nd portion is different from similar trailer at youtube. international trailer then?
anyways, diggit! good to see Johnnie To balancing between his typical and new fares.
Kurt Halfyard 06/08/2008 @ 8:07am
Can’t wait for this one. Please. Soon!! (I don’t even want to wait until TIFF, but it is good that TIFF has been highly supportive of To’s films, so it should be a lock.