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Norm Li, CSC, talks about filming Lloyd Lee Choi’s "Lucky Lu"
By François Reumont for the AFC
A clear homage to Italian neo-realism and its most emblematic film, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thief (1948), Lucky Lu is a dark city story about bicycle deliverymen. Using New York’s Chinese community as a context, Canadian-Korean director Lloyd Lee Choi was lucky enough to book Chang Chen, (Happy Together, by Wong Kar-wai, The Assassin, by Hou Hsiao-sien) as a lead role. Norm Li, CSC, lenses this implacable story of self lie and honnor, transforming the streets of Chinatown into a symphony of scaffolding and shades of cyan. The film has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight. (FR)
Lucky Lu follows a New York bicycle delivery man whose world is turned upside down the day he loses his only source of income. With his long-distant family finally on the road from Asia, Lu must face an unforgiving city and fight to preserve the fragile life he’s spent so many years building.
With Chang Chen (Lu Jia Cheng), Fala Chen (Si Yu), Carabelle Manna Wei (Yaya).
Norm Li sur le tournage de "Lucky Lu"
Photo Jeong Park
