VIFF 2015: Mood meets gore in Port of Call

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      Port of Call (Hong Kong)  

      Jiamei is a teen as lost as they come in this melancholy procedural from writer-director Philip Yung. Along with newcomer Jessie Li, it’s the performances by Aaron Kwok as a weirdo cop and lumbering Michael Ning as her killer, Ting, that keep us interested in an elliptical story where nobody’s motives are obvious, including the victim. Lashings of gore add yet another strand, while moody photography from vet Christopher Doyle makes it all cohere—just.

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