“I want my films to bring hope to spectators”: An interview with Michael Hui

Jessica Siu-Yin YEUNG

doi:10.47979/aror.j.90.3.565-574

“I want my films to bring hope to spectators”: An interview with Michael Hui

Jessica Siu-Yin YEUNG^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Michael Hui received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards and the Award for Outstanding Contribution in Arts at the 15th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. Hui was also featured as the “Filmmaker in Focus” at the 44th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Although the South China Morning Post (2022),¹ Art and Piece (2022),² Michael Hui, Filmmaker in Focus (2020),³ Karen Fang (2018),⁴ and Tim Youngs (2011)⁵ have also published interviews with Hui, they were more interested in the biographical and the industrial aspects of Hui’s career. This interview focuses on Hui’s insights into comedy’s versatility and how it consoles people in a time of gloom.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	565-574
Number of pages	10
Journal	Archiv Orientalni
Volume	90
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.90.3.565-574
Publication status	Published - 22 Dec 2022
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements:
I am grateful to Michael Hui, Hui See-Wai, and Sam Ho for their help in enabling this interview to be conducted.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Oriental Institute (CAS), Prague.

Keywords

consolation
gloom
hope
Michael Hui
nature of comedy
uses of comedy

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