BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Marion HANSEL
  • 1995
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films

An old freighter, belonging to a company that has gone out of business drops anchor off Hong Kong. The crew aboard has to wait a week, or more, to get paid. After that, who knows what lies ahead? Among the sailors there is Nikos, a radio operator, a man of few words, weary of life, in introvert and opium addict, and Li, a little Chinese girl living on the sampans in the bay of Hong Kong, doing cleaning work on the ships while they’re in port. It is the friendship that arises between this lost man and a bright little girl who won’t herself be defeated, who keeps her innocence in spite of the chaos in her life. Fragile and transparent as the light of Hong Kong, this story is made of silences, expectations and sorrow.

Directed by : Marion HANSEL
Country: Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Duration: 92

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BEYOND RANGOON

John BOORMAN

CARRINGTON

Christopher HAMPTON

DEAD MAN

Jim JARMUSCH

ED WOOD

Tim BURTON

HAONAN HAONU

Hsiao Hsien HOU

HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN

Montxo ARMENDARIZ

KIDS

Larry CLARK

LA CITE DES ENFANTS PERDUS

Jean-Pierre JEUNET, Marc CARO

LA HAINE

Mathieu KASSOVITZ

O CONVENTO

Manoel DE OLIVEIRA

SENATORUL MELCILOR

Mircea DANELIUC

SHARAKU

Masahiro SHINODA

THE NEON BIBLE

Terence DAVIES

TO VLEMMA TOU ODYSSEA

Theo ANGELOPOULOS

UNDERGROUND

Emir KUSTURICA

WAATI

Souleymane CISSE