20th Anniversary New York Asian Film Festival

Jul 15-31, 2022

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Tribute to Josie Ho

Dream Home

維多利亞壹號

Josie Ho (Exiled, The Drummer) pushes the envelope with this unforgettable performance as a tenacious young woman who will stop at nothing to buy a beautiful home with a view. She stalks and kills all who stand in the way of her dreams; so what if death and dismemberment pave the way to domestic bliss? Pang Ho-cheung, one of the foremost auteurs to emerge from Hong Kong this millennium, was born to filmmaking, demonstrating a uniquely wry sensibility across several genres. This gleefully outrageous take on the slasher film not only fulfills required quotas for fear and bloodshed, but also delivers a pointed message about Hong Kong’s class struggle and its soul-crushing real-estate paradox. Dream Home is a gore-soaked, must-see satire that will have you quaking with terror, even as you cheer on its empowered (albeit somewhat demented) heroine.

Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Cast: Josie Ho, Eason Chan, Derek Tsang, Juno Mak
Languages: Cantonese with English subtitles
2010; 96 min.

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 16, 10:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Actor Josie Ho will attend the screening.

Josie Ho

Award-winning actress, producer, rockstar and Hong Kong culture icon Josie Ho first graced the silver screen in 1994 and has appeared in such notable films as Exiled (2006), The Drummer (2007), Dream Home (2010), and Full Strike (2015), which she also produced. Ho received a Best Supporting Actress award for Naked Ambition in 2003 at the Hong Kong Film Awards and In the Room in 2017 at the Malaysian Film Awards. She is also a prolific producer and has worked on such international productions as How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), and Edge of the World (2019), in which she also starred.