![]() Cassiel can’t get in touch with anyone in heaven to talk to about the case, Lucifer’s minions are pushing for Balthazar to end the case solidly and swiftly. At each and every turn it seems Cassiel’s attempt to redeem Jimmy is impossible – each witness testimony never really showing Jimmy as the type of man who should find redemption in death.īut then there’s the other factors. From Jimmy’s drunk dad and his junkie mother (Rebekah Kennedy), to the prostitute (Lauryn Canny) Jimmy befriended. Whereas Balthazar wants to see Jimmy burn, literally, in hell.Īnd so Limbo carries on, Cassiel and Balthazar calling witnesses from Jimmy’s life, spanning his birth to his recent death, in order to try and convince each other that Jimmy is, or isn’t, worth saving. Cassiel’s task? To prove there’s still some good in Jimmy and that he shouldn’t be tried just on this one crime and thus should go to heaven. Instead it is limbo, the place between heaven and hell and Cassiel and Balthazar are actually battling for Jimmy’s soul. So far so crime drama, Only it turns out that this office is any but an office. About to sign a confession of his crimes, Jimmy (Lew Temple) is interrupted by his defence attorney Cassiel (Scottie Thompson) – who announces she wants Jimmy to receive a full pardon… Killed in an attempt to rob a pawn shop, a robbery that ended in the death of shop owner (Veronica Cartwright), Jimmy wakes up to find himself in a dimly lit office face to face with prosecutor Balthazar (Lucian Charles Collier), who is tasked with trying Jimmy for his crimes. Our Last Days 2012 Che sau ( Motorway) 2001 Horror Hotline.Stars: Lucian Charles Collier, Scottie Thompson, Lew Temple, Peter Jacobson, Richard Riehle, Lauryn Canny, Veronica Cartwright, James Purefoy, Rebekah Kennedy, Mandela Van Peebles, Chad Lindberg | Written and Directed by Mark Young. ![]() His greatest commercial success, The Monkey King series, achieved total box office returns of over 440 million US dollars. His films have screened at numerous festivals: Motorway screened at the Locarno Film Festival, SPL2: A Time For Consequences screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Accident was in competition at the Venice International Film Festival. Making use of monochrome, “hidden object” aesthetics, the film probes the boundaries of the bearable, traversing them experimentally with excesses of violence, subtle gender-bending and tender gestures in a world that has lost its humanity.īorn in Macau in 1972, the Hong Kong filmmaker, actor and screenwriter made his directing debut with Our Last Days. Alongside the great cast, the trademarks of Hong Kong genre filmmaker Soi Cheang ( Dog Bite Dog) include his brilliantly cool observation of well-honed cop rituals – at times condensed into a one-shot-per-second montage, at others edited at a more leisurely pace – as well as close-ups of those struggling to survive amid the city’s trash heaps. The ultra-long showdown really packs a punch: if you don’t shudder, you’ll scream. Surrounded by ever more insane bouts of violence and increasingly in danger of falling victim to the bestial serial killer herself, she fights the traumas of the slums by her own means. But this young woman is both unpredictable and insubordinate. To lure this “hand-fetish” ripper, they use the criminal Wong To, who needs to atone for causing an accident involving Cham’s family, as bait. ![]() Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women. ![]()
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