Five Flavors Festival: Blade

TypeGreat Hall

Hour

22.11

|

6.30 p.m. |

RETROSPECTIVE: TSUI HARK

Ding On is an orphan and works at a sword-making plant whose owner once adopted and raised him. When he accidentally learns the circumstances of his father's death, he decides to find the murderer - the cruel Flying Dragon. With this decision, he will set in motion events that will turn the world around him upside down. “Blade,” with a plot told from the perspective of Ling, the grown-up daughter of a plant owner, is a lesser-known Tsui Hark masterpiece, a remake of Chang Cheh's classic 1967 “One-Handed Swordsman.”

Crude and nihilistic, Tsuia's film is formally, however, very far removed from the stylized original, redefining the noble assumptions of the wxia genre. The action, drenched in sweat, blood and violence, was filmed in tight frames with a camera moving violently to the rhythm of furiously throbbing sounds. Tailored to the sensibilities of its time, “Blade” deeply cuts viewers' emotions two years before Hong Kong was handed over to China.

(Marcin Krasnowolski)

BLADE, dir. Tsui Hark, Hong Kong, China 1986, 105'

Language: Cantonese, with Polish and English subtitles

Venue: Sala Wielka

For whom: youth, adults

Tickets: 27 (normal), 25 (reduced), 22 (with Kinomana Card) zł

Movie packages

Package for 5 films — 100 zł (1 screening = 20 zł)

Package for 10 films — 190 zł (1 screening = 19 zł)

Package of 20 films — 360 zł (1 screening = 18 zł)

Packages available at CK ZAMEK Box Office and online (at kinopalacowe.pl and through Bilety24). When purchasing the package online, you must add 5/10/20 tickets to the cart, respectively, and then the price for all purchases will be reduced accordingly.

ATTENTION! The packages apply to all screenings within the Festival excluding the screening of the film “After Life” as part of Cinema Without Barriers. There is a separate price list for the screening as part of Cinema Without Barriers.

All seats in the three halls unnumbered.