Nomad (Leslie Cheung)

Show & Culture

Nomad, Lie huo qing chun, Hong Kong 1982 | Patrick Tam | vostFR | 93’ | Digital | With Leslie Cheung, Pat Ha, Kent Tong, Cecilia Yip. Cheung plays Louis, a carefree young man in the early 1980s searching for freedom, torn between love, friendship, and disillusionment. Through his journey, the film portrays a generation breaking with traditional values and seeking identity in a world undergoing major changes. Now considered a seminal work of the Hong Kong New Wave, its bold style and modern themes have deeply marked local cinema. “Nomad contains a political reflection on the encounter–and cultural clash–between a precarious and bourgeois youth whose carefree attitude collapses in a Hong Kong torn between British colonization and Chinese ambitions in the 1980s. Between the desire to escape and romantic reverie, counterbalanced by the geopolitical context, this unclassifiable work of the flamboyant 1980s lingers in the mind.” (Trois Couleurs) “A must-see rerelease of the summer. As a true cruel youth story, Nomad impresses on all fronts.” (Chaos)