The Grandmaster

For his ninth film, Wong Kar Wai impressively narrates the story of Yip Man, a Chinese legend of the martial arts of the 20th century, who influenced thousands of his well-known students as well as cinema itself.

When: Thursday 29th August, at 21:00
Where: Avana cinema, Kifisias avenue 234 & Lykourgou 3 
Free entrance

The story of Yip Man is one of the details of a period tableau, which is depicted on screen as an abstract visual feast of moments and attempts to run through two decades of Chinese history and bloody invasions, civil wars, personal tragedies and uprootings.

Even then, however, it'd be too rushed to call the film a historical drama and too superficial to call it a traditional martial arts adventure. Like a feverish dream you fall into ever-dumbfounded, leaving your objections aside, the film is choreographed around two characters who can defy the laws of gravity, but not the heart's mysterious yearnings or fate's unexpected twists, and muses on the passing of time and the incomplete part in a life.

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Directed by: Wong Kar Wai
Starring:  Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang
Year of production: 2013
Running time: 123'

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The 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival is organized by the Athens International Film Festival and the CINEMA magazine – cinemagazine.gr, with the kind support of the Greek National Tourism Organisation..