They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here
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They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here
In the early 1980s, director Clara Law Cheuk-yiu left her position as a producer at Radio Television Hong Kong’s TV division and became the first Chinese student at the National Film and Television School in the UK. Her graduation project, The Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, became a feature-length film and won the Silver Plaque award at the 1985 Chicago Film Festival. Law appeared in the film as an art student pulled into a delicate dance of feelings with a young Chinese man studying on a state scholarship. Charged with emotional and political undercurrents, the film’s narrative manifests the incongruity between cultures. At the time of the film’s release, Hong Kong’s future was clouded, and Law suffered an acute identity crisis, caught in the cultural gap between the East and the West in a foreign land. She was determined to explore her understanding of Eastern aesthetics and sensibility in film. For years unduly forgotten and neglected, They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here may be one of Law’s most personal works.
M+ Cinema will present the latest digitally restored version of the film from the original 16 mm.
The screening on 23 November will be followed by a post-screening talk in Cantonese with director Clara Law.
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director
About the Director
Clara Law Cheuk-yiu (b. Macau, 1957) is a director, screenwriter, and producer. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a degree in English. After finishing her studies at the National Film and Television School in the UK, Law returned to Hong Kong and directed several feature films, including The Other Half and the Other Half (1988) and Farewell China (1990). Her Autumn Moon (1992) and Floating Life (1996) won the Golden and Silver Leopard Awards, respectively, at the Locarno International Film Festival. Law’s Temptation of a Monk (1993) and The Goddess of 1967 (2000) competed at the Venice International Film Festival, while her short film Red Earth (2010) was selected for the Festival’s Orizzonti (Horizons) section. Law’s most recent essay film, Drifting Petals (2021), which she funded , earned her the Best Director at the Golden Horse Film Awards.
Image at top: Clara Law. They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here, 1985. Photo: Courtesy of the director