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Nomad ( Chinese: 烈火青春) is a 1982 Hong Kong film directed by Patrick Tam. It is about the experiences of a group of youngsters who feel lost and try to find the meaning of life. It is representative of the Hong Kong New Wave films.
Nov 26, 1982 · Nomad: Directed by Patrick Tam, Tong Kay Ming Terry. With Cecilia Yip, Leslie Cheung, Patricia Ha, Ken Tong. A story about the experiences of a group of youngsters who feel lost and try to find the true meaning of life.
In “Nomad”, Hong Kong is a flame perhaps on the verge of extinguishing: it is completely torn between the cultural heritage of ancient China and the shadow of its imminent political return, between the influences of the so-called “Western” world and the presence of its neighboring Japan.
Nomad is the kind of story we have all seen and heard before: youthful idyll in the face of/clashing with the harsh realities of a nation(s) in sociopolitical flux, the follies braved by those in the first stages of adulthood, weird and mercurial happenings—uncanny shit in our day-to-days that catch us off-guard, etc etc etc, but Tam is such ...
Aug 18, 2023 · Nomad 烈火青春 (1982) (Director’s Cut) September 2, 2023. The Asian Film Archive presents the 4K restored director's cut of Hong Kong New Wave director Patrick Tam's Nomad (1982), starring Leslie Cheung.
Screenplay. Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
The most brutal of new wave violences. It is not the playfulness of most where bullets lodge themselves in bodies between philosophical musings and brechtian nonchalance, emerging from within as simply the everyday. That is the violence of the theater, the highfalutin.
