MILKYWAY TACTICAL MEETINGS (WITH A VENGEANCE)

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I’m back in (the suburb of of) Paris since April 16 th, and I just finished to write for the French mag Mad Movies/Impact, a 3-page article about Milkyway Image, the production company founded by Johnnie To杜琪峰and Wai Kai-fai韋家輝, which produced recently “ Tactical Unit Comrades in Arms機動部隊─衕袍” (screened a few weeks ago at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and soon to be screened at the Far East Film Festival) and “ Vengeance復仇” (Official French theatrical release on May 20 th, 2009).

During my stay in HK, I had the chance to interview one afternoon, some of the Milkyway Image creative team like the scriptwriters Yau Nai-hoi游乃海and Au Kin-yee歐健兒and most of all, Law Wing-cheong羅永昌, director of two of the five Tactical Units sequels ( The Code機動部隊─警例and Comrades in Arms), who was also executive director on the original PTU movie.

Law Wing-cheong works with Johnnie To for a very long time (he started at TVB as well), so I basically interviewed him about his whole carreer during 100 minutes (translation included). The scriptwriters were kind of busy, so I just had around 10-15 minutes with them.

In between, I also interviewed during half an hour the “Hong Kong Frenchie Boy” Vincent Sze especially about his part in Tactical Unit – Comrades in Arms, his first movie as a lead (beside Simon Yam任達華, Maggie Shiu邵美琪and Lam Suet林雪) where he plays a good but bad tempered cop. He’ll also apparead in Vengeance as the son-in-law of the main character played by Johnny Hallyday.

After that, I also had a brief chat with Yuin Ding-chan丁雲山(production manager/supervisor of quite a lot of Milkyway Image movies) about the next Milkyway Image projects - including the new Soi Cheang movie, Accident(ex- Assassins暗殺) and  Written By, directed by Wai Kai-fai etc... -  to complete my article.

Frédéric Ambroisine (April 20 th, 2009)

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