The widow of a sign-making craftsman vows to finish his last work in Anastasia Tsang’s drama, a fascinating idea, if conventionally executed
Hong Kong’s colourful neon signs were once a glittering symbol of the city’s vibrancy; now they are rapidly disappearing, replaced with cheaper options like LED lights. Vanishing alongside these jewels of the night are their creators, passionate artisans whose metier is now obsolete. Steeped in this atmosphere of nostalgia and loss, Anastasia Tsang’s feature debut is a heartfelt love letter to these forgotten craftsmen as well as a bygone Hong Kong whose light continues to linger amid socio-political change.
Grappling with generational differences, Tsang negotiates a well-intentioned but conventional plot that trades in familiar archetypes. Mei-hsiang (Sylvia Chang), the grieving widow of a master neon maker, clings on to his workshop, a sentimental attachment that stands in stark contrast to her level-headed daughter Prism...
Hong Kong’s colourful neon signs were once a glittering symbol of the city’s vibrancy; now they are rapidly disappearing, replaced with cheaper options like LED lights. Vanishing alongside these jewels of the night are their creators, passionate artisans whose metier is now obsolete. Steeped in this atmosphere of nostalgia and loss, Anastasia Tsang’s feature debut is a heartfelt love letter to these forgotten craftsmen as well as a bygone Hong Kong whose light continues to linger amid socio-political change.
Grappling with generational differences, Tsang negotiates a well-intentioned but conventional plot that trades in familiar archetypes. Mei-hsiang (Sylvia Chang), the grieving widow of a master neon maker, clings on to his workshop, a sentimental attachment that stands in stark contrast to her level-headed daughter Prism...
- 5/9/2023
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Left alone after the sudden passing of her husband Bill (Simon Yam), Mei Heung (Sylvia Chang) fights insomnia by spending night after night feeding coins into the slot machines in an arcade game hall. She is one of the few customers in this large, neon lit room that had long lost its prime. This specific atmosphere draws parallels with the film's story that centers around the slowly dying neon sign artcraft of Hong Kong.
“A Light Never Goes Out” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
Neon lights have seldom been used as the backdrop of heart-warming dramas about love, solitude and longing, and more as the atmosphere-building coulisses for pulse-racing thrillers with dramatic outcomes. Anastasia Tsang takes the original approach in her drama “A Light Never Goes Out”, and makes the maximum out of Hong Kong's intensely colorful lights to create a dream-like world in which one woman...
“A Light Never Goes Out” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
Neon lights have seldom been used as the backdrop of heart-warming dramas about love, solitude and longing, and more as the atmosphere-building coulisses for pulse-racing thrillers with dramatic outcomes. Anastasia Tsang takes the original approach in her drama “A Light Never Goes Out”, and makes the maximum out of Hong Kong's intensely colorful lights to create a dream-like world in which one woman...
- 4/24/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Left alone after the sudden passing of her husband Bill (Simon Yam), Mei Heung (Sylvia Chang) fights insomnia by spending night after night feeding coins into the slot machines in an arcade game hall. She is one of the few customers in this large, neon lit room that had long lost its prime. This specific atmosphere draws parallels with the film’s story that centers around the slowly dying neon sign artcraft of Hong Kong.
A Light Never Goes Out is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Neon lights have seldom been used as the backdrop of heart-warming dramas about love, solitude and longing, and more as the atmosphere-building coulisses for pulse-racing thrillers with dramatic outcomes. Anastasia Tsang takes the original approach in her drama “A Light Never Goes Out”, and makes the maximum out of Hong Kong’s intensely colorful lights to create a dream-like world in...
A Light Never Goes Out is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Neon lights have seldom been used as the backdrop of heart-warming dramas about love, solitude and longing, and more as the atmosphere-building coulisses for pulse-racing thrillers with dramatic outcomes. Anastasia Tsang takes the original approach in her drama “A Light Never Goes Out”, and makes the maximum out of Hong Kong’s intensely colorful lights to create a dream-like world in...
- 2/2/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
It’s been a banner week or so for North Carolina indie-rock. First, on February 20th, the Archers of Loaf — one of the Nineties’ finest bands in any genre — released their first new song in 22 years, “Raleigh Days.” It’s a loving evocation of their local scene back in its heyday, set to the kind of sweet, searing guitar clamor the Archers always did so well. Welcome back, Loaf.
A few days later, two excellent artifacts from the bygone era the Archers sing about got cool vinyl reissues: 1992’s Cor-Crane...
A few days later, two excellent artifacts from the bygone era the Archers sing about got cool vinyl reissues: 1992’s Cor-Crane...
- 3/1/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
I have learned that Universal Television has let the options on the entire cast of its NBC’s drama pilot Prism lapse while the studio continues conversations with Netflix about picking up the project to series.
The move is not a surprise. As Deadline reported previously, Netflix intends to retool the Rashomon-Inspired project and shoot a new pilot if it picks up the drama. For that reason, Universal TV was not expected to hold onto most actors, whose options expire this weekend; it was just unclear whether any cast members would be asked to continue.
Prism, from Daniel and Ben Barnz’s We’re Not Brothers Productions, Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz, was an early standout at NBC. It did not make the cut at NBC but Universal TV brass had been very high on the project and took it out immediately after the network passed on the pilot. The...
The move is not a surprise. As Deadline reported previously, Netflix intends to retool the Rashomon-Inspired project and shoot a new pilot if it picks up the drama. For that reason, Universal TV was not expected to hold onto most actors, whose options expire this weekend; it was just unclear whether any cast members would be asked to continue.
Prism, from Daniel and Ben Barnz’s We’re Not Brothers Productions, Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz, was an early standout at NBC. It did not make the cut at NBC but Universal TV brass had been very high on the project and took it out immediately after the network passed on the pilot. The...
- 6/29/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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