Essential Cinema: John Woo: Heroic Bloodshed

BULLET IN THE HEAD

Directed by John Woo

Hong Kong, 1990, 2h 16min, DCP, In Cantonese, Vietnamese, and French with English subtitles.

Essential Cinema: John Woo: Heroic Bloodshed

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“Woo’s best and most personal film.”
—Vulture

“​​At his peak, Woo didn’t build set pieces — he emptied armouries, unleashed firestorms.”
—Little White Lies

No Chow Yun-fat this time, but Tony Leung Chiu-wai is a pretty good consolation prize as John Woo tells the story of three petty criminals in 1967 who, fleeing a powerful mob boss, go from the frying pan into the fire as they flee to wartime Saigon. Woo considered this his APOCALYPSE NOW, and you’ll see why. New 4K restoration. 

 

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