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There is a deep enough pocket of Johnnie To fans in the U.S (our own Richard Lally counts as one of them – read...

The 35th edition of the HKIFF takes place next month and compared to last year, this year's fest will have a little less local films premiering. In the Hong Kong Panorama section, only six films will be screened, which is half the number of last year’s output. This year, Johnnie To’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart will be the opening film along with Quattro Hong Kong 2, a sort of the continuation to the last year’s Quattro Hong Kong, which is categorized as a tribute film to the city of Hong Kong.

A Vietnamese actioner that has been described as "a high-octane martial-arts ass-kicker", Indomina Releasing continue their slate building for their break-out year next year with another acquisition from the Far East. It might be way too early to call first time filmmaker Lê Thanh Son might be Vietnman's answer to Tony Jaa or Johnnie To, but with Clash being picked up internationally certainly bodes well for this filmmakers' career.

After a stop at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Soi Cheang stopped in Toronto for the international premiere to Accident. A film that came to the festival some a certain amount of clout, as one of the film's producer is none other than Johnnie To, the picture sure looked good, but it came across as a film that embodies the mindset of it's characters - it thinks it's clever, but its only an illusionary facade.

A title that received tremendous buzz from Venice, I came into Soi Cheang's Accident (produced by Johnnie To) not knowing much, and though the intro sequence is well plotted, this tale of a team of assassins covering up their tracks in a picture perfect manner, falls in the trappings of a screenplay that attempt to get too creative and too witty in its smallish shell.