The visual artist Keff signs a first stylized film on the violence of gangs in Taiwan.
The synopsis
In Taiwan, Zhong-Han, a young man mutic in his twenties, leads a double life. Employed in a family restaurant during the day, he rackets in the night band on behalf of local sponsors. But the acquisition of the restaurant by a crooked businessman endangers his loved ones, and forces Zhong-Han to face his own gang.
Paris Match Critique (3/5)
For his first feature film, the multi-cap artist Keff pays a heavy price in the Hong Kong cinema of his childhood. Stylized thriller, “Gangs of Taiwan” will not surprise the lovers of Johnnie To and Ringo Lam films, even in his ruptures of your romantic. The interest is elsewhere, in the capture of anger which ends in the Taiwanese youth before the violent repression of the student demonstrations in Hong Kong. Keff undenibly has talent behind the camera – beautiful night sequences immortalized by the leader of “Mashaad nights” Nadim Carlsen -, but the film is lost in a maze of sub -intrigues to last 2h15 – that’s far too.
