Infernal Affairs

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    Date

    Friday, August 4, 2023
    7:00 pm–8:45 pm

    Location

    Freer Gallery of Art
    Meyer Auditorium

Description

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Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The set-up is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthless triad by posing as a gangster, and a gangster who becomes a police officer in order to serve as a spy for the underworld—find themselves locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, each racing against time to unmask the other. As the shifting loyalties, murky moral compromises, and deadly betrayals mount, Infernal Affairs raises haunting questions about what it means to live a double life, lost in a labyrinth of conflicting identities and allegiances. Description courtesy of Janus Films. (Dir.: Andrew Lau Wai-keung & Alan Mak, Hong Kong, 2002, 101 min., DCP, Cantonese with English subtitles).

Cost

Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Free tickets (up to four per person per film) can be reserved using the links below. Patrons may also register at the door if seats are still available.

Topics

Films

Event Series

Three Restored Hong Kong Classics