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LUZ

Huā Míng Dù
Swiss Premiere
Flora Lau
Hong Kong SAR China, China
2025, 102'
Genre
Recommended Age
12 years
VO. French, Chinese, English
ST. English
With
David Chiang, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna
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As both abandon themselves to the game Luz, Ren tries to get closer to his stepmother while Wei desperately searches for his daughter. A work about reconciliation through virtual reality.
In her second feature, Flora Lau explores the complexity of family ties, transcending them through the prism of technology. Ren, a gallery owner in Hong Kong, is forced to travel to Paris to look after her mother-in-law Sabine (Isabelle Huppert), whom she hasn't seen in years; in Chongqing, Wei, an ex-convict on the road to redemption, wants to be reunited with his daughter. Both seek to renew their family ties through the prism of Luz, a successful virtual reality game. The Hong Kong director poetically tackles the question of the digital world, like a waking dream as strange as it is bewitching, a kind of bridge between the inner world and reality in which the protagonists wander, find themselves and reconnect. A singular journey between worlds.

Damien Brodard
Direction
Flora Lau
Image
Benjamín Echazarreta
Editing
Denis Bedlow, Fernando Epstein, Flora Lau
Music
Mimi Xu
Production
Flora Lau, Joseph Sinn Gi Chan, Stephen Lam
With
David Chiang, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Guo Xiao Dong, Deng En Xi, Huang Lu
World sales
Visit Films
Flora Lau
Hong Kong
Previous works
2013, Bends (Feature, Director, Editor, Writer)
2012, Start from Zero (Short, Director, Editor, Co-Producer, Writer)
2009, Dry Rain (Short, Director, Writer)
2008, 12:30 (Short, Director, Writer)
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