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Our Time Will Come (Ming yue ji shi you) [Audio: China]
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
17 December 1969, Xi'an, Shanxi, China
1 June 1943, Shunde, Guangdong, Republic of China
5 March 1978, Tianjin, China
11 September 1962, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
8 December 1986, Hong Kong
15 July 1966, Miyazaki, Japan
25 December 1947
27 September 1975, Hong Kong
4 February 1963, Hong Kong
December 5, 1992 in Kunming, Yunnan, China
22 August 1979, Nagasaki, Japan
June 20, 1969 in Bengbu, Anhui, China
18 October 1974, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
1 February 1958, Hong Kong
22 December 1956, Vietnam
26 April 1963, Hong Kong
18 June 1980, Hong Kong
18 October 1974, Hong Kong
25 February 1965
20 July 1947, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
4 November 1964, Hong Kong
July 04, 2017
Hui makes the most of her cast - boasting a notable number of Hong Kong Film Awards winners - to fashion an unapologetically human drama.
June 21, 2017
By highlighting the value of artists and intellectuals, and the importance of protecting them, she imbues the authentic historical episode with timely universal relevance.
July 19, 2017
The film capitalizes on its characters' amateurism, which imbues their life-threatening cause with a desperation that easily translates into tension in every scene.
June 21, 2017
A film marked by strong performances - leads Zhou Xun and Deanie Ip in particular - and a poignant resonance which rings through to the territory's travails today.
July 06, 2017
As usual in Hui's films, the personal and the political are stitched tightly together.
July 06, 2017
Has plenty of heart, but no soul.
July 13, 2017
Like most of Hui's films, Our Time's subtlety is entrancing, withholding big dramatic moments to consider everyday behavior. This strategy speaks to Hui's tremendous gifts of directing actors and establishing a sense of place.
July 05, 2017
It's Fang's transformation, embodied by Ms. Zhou's lean, cool authority, that carries the most weight, lending the proceedings an unforced feminist dimension, and reaffirming Ms. Hui's status as one of China's cinematic treasures.
June 22, 2017
Beyond the handful of obligatory escapades, gunfights and images of martyrdom, the film reveals itself as less a drama about extraordinary heroes than an illustration of life in a fallen city.
July 06, 2017
A little-known chapter in Hong Kong's wartime history has been vividly re-created in "Our Time Will Come," a female-driven drama poignantly directed by Ann Hui.
July 07, 2017
A surprisingly affecting call to arms.

